From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 7 22:05:27 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C881106566B for ; Sat, 7 Nov 2009 22:05:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from david.chanters@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f213.google.com (mail-bw0-f213.google.com [209.85.218.213]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21FF78FC13 for ; Sat, 7 Nov 2009 22:05:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz5 with SMTP id 5so2373360bwz.3 for ; Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:05:25 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type; bh=979xiczxxWjy0u8Ed/IZmimXGsrhoNkRcTS9fPWN9LY=; b=r8Uj5lo/TCKwxpK/0UJAplMxbZX6KgQZggca/gHkocmeJxu+NBhZcMrqMQYrHgBc0w bxdMxJPWMkcOLCol9+ZidFEchawfEVkTTYXtAYpZ5C0kH1TBlgnrZYry6IvSkAg4UHl/ tzI//wKJpZY4KlNVmEBU6/SeKsLwdTQalkviw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=gMZWX0HkU/3hJpAcWKCGca2bMgn4dZljcSHFZZidn6VEgTe+fA9dYJR+HO+1n/XIi/ jRyOpMv07x80NiIEAWJ+woEIxkqLzqTeKiEeIdFsdW1HlECZIaY0/mznoI+EoI7/RA1D 1FELhS1YmfDwKyGg21uLXbitTOnVI9F39PhV4= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.144.85 with SMTP id y21mr898139fau.1.1257629688933; Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:34:48 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2009 21:34:48 +0000 Message-ID: From: David Chanters To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Migrating from Linux (keeping partitions at install time) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:05:27 -0000 Hi all, I am considering switching from Debian Linux to FreeBSD. I am wondering if at install time, sysinstall is able to allow me to keep "/home" from my Debian installation. "/home" on Debian is currently a separate partition in its own right, mounted as RXT3. I only have the one hard disk in my machine. So, questions: 1. Can the installer be told to not touch "/home" at install time (I appreciate I would have to ensure I mapped the current /dev/hda2 terminology to slices in BSD parlance) 2. Does the fact that this is an EXT3 partition matter? (I have read FreeBSD supports ext2, and ext3 is just ext2 with a journal, so it can be mounted as ext2 if needed). 3. Is it possible/beneficial to convert this to UFS once FreeBSD is installed? Thanks in advance for any help. David