i386/124621: Cannot mount ext2fs partition

[Paul Floyd]

>Number:         124621
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       Cannot mount ext2fs partition
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-i386
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Jun 15 20:30:01 UTC 2008
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Paul Floyd
>Release:        7.0p1
>Organization:
n/a
>Environment:
FreeBSD bisanne.orange.fr 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 24 19:59:52 UTC 2008     root at logan.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
>Description:
Fedora 9 (and perhaps other distros) has changed ext2fs in a way that is not backwards compatible (changing the inode size from 128bytes to 256bytes). This renders ext2fs partitions unmountable by FreeBSD.
>How-To-Repeat:
Install Fedora 9 and les the installer format its destination partition as ext3
>Fix:
Formatted the partition with gparted (under debian etch) prior to running the Fedora 9 installer, and made sure to not format the partition during the installation.

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