fstab, PCBSD question
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I have MEPIS 7 beta 5 installed in a logical partition, sda7 , PC-BSD in a primary partition, sda3. MEPIS can't see the BSD partition. The problem seems to be in the fstab file which has an entry for BSD as:
/dev/sda3 /mnt/sda3 vfat,ext3,ext2,reiserfs noauto,users,exec 0 0
When I try to edit the file (as root) to:
/dev/sda3 /mnt/sda3 ufs auto,ro,ufstype=ufs2,nodev,nosuid 0 0
After I save the fstab file it seems to get over written when I use the command mount -a so I still can't mount the partition. This is an entry I have used in other versions of Linux fstab files that works fine. What do I need to do to get the file manager in MEPIS to recognize this partition?
You probably need to move
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You probably need to move that fstab entry in the Static part of the file (above) not sure if that will solve the issue but at least it shouldn't get overwritten if it's there
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Thanks for both suggestions,
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Thanks for both suggestions, I'll give them a try.
Hmm
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Hmm, I haven't played with FreeBSD or PC-BSD for a little while, so this is just a guess.
You may need to install ufs into Mepis. I just did a quick check of one of my systems and looked for the mkfs.ufs command (it should be in /sbin/mkfs.ufs), and it was not there.
I did a search of name and description within synaptic and found a package called freebsd5-buildutils. The description says that it has modifications needed to build FreeBSD sources (such as ufsutils). You might try loading that and see if you then get mkfs.ufs.
Warning: I have not tried this on my system
Jon
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