Creating an ext2 file system on FreeBSD?

Tom Grove freebsd at voidmain.net
Fri Aug 3 12:02:16 PDT 2007


Paul Hoffman wrote:
> Hi again. Is there a FreeBSD equivalent of Linux's 'mke2fs'? I want to 
> create a disk image that is in ext2 format. On Linux, I would do:
>   dd if=/dev/zero of=some.img bs=1M count=1 seek=1024
>   /sbin/mke2fs -F -j some.img
> Can I do something similar on FreeBSD?
>
> --Paul Hoffman
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mke2fs is is the port: /usr/ports/sysutils/e2fsprogs

cd /usr/ports/sysutils/e2fsprogs
make install clean

/usr/local/sbin/mke2fs

-Tom


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