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From: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: ext2/? support for large block sizes
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 23:36:28 -0500
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On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 01:44:26PM +0000, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> 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).

> Is there a way to get files off that disk?

Why not just use debugfs to get files off of it?

    	     	 	    	- Ted