Does busybox mount support ext4
walter harms
wharms at bfs.de
Mon Oct 12 10:44:15 UTC 2009
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.
re,
wh
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