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On 09/05/2009 05:28 AM, James wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> I'm building up a P3 as a firewall, using 4 GB Compact Flash |
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> to IDE as the hard drive (SANDISK). I've done this before |
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> and it works great. |
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> The kernel is gentoo-30-r5 and it does not support EXT2. |
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> I have already formatted the Flash as EXT2: |
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> Disk /dev/hda: 4110 MB, 4110188544 bytes |
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> 128 heads, 63 sectors/track, 995 cylinders |
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> Units = cylinders of 8064 * 512 = 4128768 bytes |
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> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System |
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> /dev/hda1 1 25 100768+ 83 Linux |
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> /dev/hda2 26 88 254016 82 Linux swap / Solaris |
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> /dev/hda3 89 995 3657024 83 Linux |
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> # mke2fs /dev/hda1 |
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> # mke2fs /dev/hda3 |
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> Now building the sources, there is no ext2 any more? |
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> Any suggestions (just use ext3 for flash?) |
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> Grab and old kernel source? (which one?) |
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> Under gentoo-30-r5 --> file systems |
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> <*> Ext3 journalling file system support |
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Something's fishy here. For me, the ext2 option is the first one in |
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the file systems menu, right above the ext3 option you listed. I have |
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the same kernel. |
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Anyway, the only difference is ext3 has journalling -- if you turn off |
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the journal file you have ext2. |
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