* Lars D. Nood??n <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-03-02 20:28]: > On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > A "See fstab(5) for types of supported filesystems" in the already > > excellent man page would have been helpful. Or is this seen as > > already overly obvious? > > It was one of the first things I checked. From fstab's man page: > "ext2fs A local Linux compatible ext2fs filesystem." > > So, it is, in principle, supported. But maybe there is a package missing? > See the context below in which newfs gives the error. > > $ newfs -t ext2fs -f 1440 /dev/svnd0c > newfs: newfs_ext2fs not found: No such file or directory
you can mount ext2 file systems, but not create new ones. -- Henning Brauer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] BS Web Services, http://bsws.de Full-Service ISP - Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS Services Dedicated Servers, Rootservers, Application Hosting - Hamburg & Amsterdam
