From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MjzDM-0005Bo-VA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2009 17:38:17 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A58A3E08CA; Sat, 5 Sep 2009 17:38:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88669E08CA for ; Sat, 5 Sep 2009 17:38:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1127766F32 for ; Sat, 5 Sep 2009 17:38:15 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.458 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.458 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.859, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id KQ3JvLXnrT6h for ; Sat, 5 Sep 2009 17:38:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D37766AAE for ; Sat, 5 Sep 2009 17:38:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1MjzD9-0002vD-Fm for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2009 19:38:03 +0200 Received: from adsl-69-234-186-75.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.186.75]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 05 Sep 2009 19:38:03 +0200 Received: from w41ter by adsl-69-234-186-75.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 05 Sep 2009 19:38:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Flash drive and file systems Date: Sat, 05 Sep 2009 10:37:42 -0700 Message-ID: References: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-234-186-75.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4pre) Gecko/20090905 Shredder/3.0b4pre In-Reply-To: Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 9c787b5a-03a5-4fa5-a9cc-946a1b7bb25a X-Archives-Hash: 392985081957fe713d3bf1a55515fda9 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.