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.Dd December 7, 2021
.Dt EXT2FS 5
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm ext2fs
.Nd "ext2/ext3 file system"
.Sh SYNOPSIS
To link into the kernel:
.Bd -ragged -offset indent
.Cd "options EXT2FS"
.Ed
.Pp
To load as a kernel loadable module:
.Pp
.Dl "kldload ext2fs"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
driver will permit the
.Dx
kernel to access
ext2 and ext3
file systems.
Journalling is currently not supported.
.Sh EXAMPLES
To mount a
.Nm
volume located on
.Pa /dev/da1s1 :
.Pp
.Dl "mount_ext2fs /dev/da1s1 /mnt"
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr mount 2 ,
.Xr unmount 2 ,
.Xr fstab 5 ,
.Xr mount 8
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
driver first appeared in
.Fx 2.2 .
It was ported to
.Dx 5.9
by
.An Tomohiro Kusumi Aq Mt tkusumi@netbsd.org .
.Sh AUTHORS
.An -nosplit
The
.Nm
kernel implementation is derived from code written,
or modified,
by
.An Godmar Back
using the UFS CSRG sources for CMU Mach.
.Pp
.An John Dyson
did the initial port to
.Fx .
.An Aditya Sarawgi
merged important parts of the allocation code from a clean-room
.Nx
implementation.
.\".An Zheng Liu
.\"and
.\".An Fedor Upurov
.\"implemented the read and write support respectively for
.\".Em ext4
.\"filesystems.
The
.Fx
community has contributed a huge amount of modifications.
.Pp
The initial version of this manual page was written by
.An Craig Rodrigues Aq Mt rodrigc@FreeBSD.org .