ext2/? support for large block sizes
Hi,
I have a Linux-based TV which happens to use ext2 for its external disks. Unfortunately, they format the thing with 16k blocks, which is not mountable by poor dumb Linux.
Is there a way to get files off that disk? (Build a User Mode Linux kernel with 16k page size?)
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Hi,
I have a Linux-based TV which happens to use ext2 for its external disks. Unfortunately, they format the thing with 16k blocks, which is not mountable by poor dumb Linux.
It is, if you have a PowerPC with a 16k page size (which is what your Linux TV probably uses).
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Is there a way to get files off that disk?
Why not just use debugfs to get files off of it?
- Ted
Hi,
Ted Ts'o:
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It is, if you have a PowerPC with a 16k page size (which is what your Linux TV probably uses).
Which I don't.
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Is there a way to get files off that disk?
Why not just use debugfs to get files off of it?
Probably because something besides "having a large block size" is going on.
debugfs: data:/daten/src/git/xtreemfs$ sudo debugfs /dev/data/loewe debugfs 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)/dev/data/loewe: The ext2 superblock is corrupt while opening filesystem
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