Does busybox mount support ext4
Michael D. Setzer II
mikes at kuentos.guam.net
Mon Oct 12 11:35:00 UTC 2009
On 12 Oct 2009 at 12:44, walter harms wrote:
Date sent: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:44:15 +0200
From: walter harms <wharms at bfs.de>
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To: "Michael D. Setzer II" <mikes at kuentos.guam.net>
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Subject: Re: Does busybox mount support ext4
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>
> Michael D. Setzer II schrieb:
> > I had a user of my g4l project ask about support for the ext4 partitions.
> > The user wasn't fully clear on what method. I know that the ext4 partition can
> > be backed up to an ftp or other remote mount or local disk or partition that
> > has a supported partitions. But I did once try to mount an ext4 partition, and
> > the busybox mount couldn't mount it. I then just reformated the partition to
> > ext3 and it worked fine. Don't know if it is support not yet added, or if some
> > helper file needs to be added?
> >
> > Since the main ext4 parition is an LVM partition that I've not figured out how
> > to easily mount, it is not a big issue.
> >
>
>
> hello,
> busybox will exec mount.ext4 (See discussion: Re: Silent failure of busybox mount for unknown fs type few days ago).
> therefore if you have mount.ext4 it will work.
>
Thanks for the quick reply. Any ideal on were mount.ext4 can be found. I've
searched my Fedora 11 machine, and did a search thru the repo and no
luck. Done a google search and haven't found a download site.
> re,
> wh
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