Re: Mounting 'foreign' file-systems

Richard B. Johnson (root@chaos.analogic.com)
Mon, 20 May 2002 14:55:12 -0400 (EDT)


On Mon, 20 May 2002, Andreas Dilger wrote:

> On May 20, 2002 11:22 -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> > On Linux 2.4.18, I can no longer mount CDROMs that were created
> > using ext2 as the file-system (yes I know this is not specified).
> > I used to use these CDROMs as part of a "rescue" package.
> >
> > Now, these can still be mounted through the loop device as is
> > shown below....
>
> Probably a filesystem != CDROM blocksize issue.

Yes, maybe. I'm on a work-break now, but once I get a chance I'll
try block-sizes from 512 bytes to 4 kilobytes and see if that
does it.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson

Penguin : Linux version 2.4.18 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).

Windows-2000/Professional isn't.

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