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From: walt <w41ter@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user]  Re: Flash drive and file systems
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 2009 10:37:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <h7u7l4$qee$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20090905T141426-196@post.gmane.org>

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

Something's fishy here.  For me, the ext2 option is the first one in
the file systems menu, right above the ext3 option you listed. I have
the same kernel.

Anyway, the only difference is ext3 has journalling -- if you turn off
the journal file you have ext2.






  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-09-05 17:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-05 12:28 [gentoo-user] Flash drive and file systems James
2009-09-05 12:55 ` pk
2009-09-05 13:10   ` Dale
2009-09-05 19:07     ` pk
2009-09-05 22:59     ` [gentoo-user] " james
2009-09-05 17:14   ` [gentoo-user] " Peter Humphrey
2009-09-05 17:37 ` walt [this message]
2009-09-05 23:12   ` [gentoo-user] " james

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