[ale] mounting squashfs

[Jim Kinney]

Are you sure the source grml.squash file is good? The module data looks good
but the error acts like the file is bad or the loopback module didn't load
properly.

On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 5:29 PM, John G. Heim <jheim at math.wisc.edu> wrote:

> Anybody know why I can't mount the squashfs from a grml CD? I'm running
> debian squeeze with a custom 2.6.30 kernel.  I thought maybe there was a
> difference between the version of squashfs in the ikernel and the one in
> the
> grmll filesystem but not. See below... The file command says the squashfs
> on
> the grml CD is 4.0 and modinfo says the kernel module is 4.0.  Also below
> is
> the output from my mount command. BTW, there is nothing in the logs except
> a
> message that it loaded the squashfs module.
>
>  # file live/grml.squashfs
> live/grml.squashfs: Squashfs filesystem, little endian, version 4.0,
> 17167501593
> 5 bytes, 142616 inodes, blocksize: 40 bytes, created: Sun Jun 18 18:40:48
> 1989
> # lsmod | grep squashfs
> squashfs               19468  0
> # modinfo squashfs
> filename:       /lib/modules/2.6.30-speakup/kernel/fs/squashfs/squashfs.ko
> license:        GPL
> author:         Phillip Lougher <phillip at lougher.demon.co.uk>
> description:    squashfs 4.0, a compressed read-only filesystem
> depends:
> vermagic:       2.6.30-speakup SMP mod_unload modversions 686
> #
> # mount -o loop -t squashfs ./live/grml.squashfs  ../loop/
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop0,
>       missing codepage or helper program, or other error
>       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
>       dmesg | tail  or so
>
>
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