Mounting Linux Partitions

This Mini Howto is About Mounting Linux Partitions under FreeBSD --------------------------------------------------------------------------- In order to mount linux partitions from your FreeBSD box you must recopile kernel with: options EXT2FS or to do the following steps: cd /usr/src/sys/modules/ext2fs make make load Then you will be able to mount your linux partitions: mount -t ext2fs /dev/ad1s1 /mnt If you have problems mounting linux partition like those: ext2fs ad0s1 wrong magic number 0 (expecting 0xef53) Then maybe your partition is marked "dirty". You could try to fsck your linux partition with fsck_ext2fs tool found in /usr/ports/sysutils/fsck_ext2fs on old FreeBSD version or installing /usr/ports/sysutils/e2fsprogs if you have a newer FreeBSD version.

 

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