Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 17:07:08 +0100 From: dick hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ext3 -> fbsd Message-ID: <20030111160708.GA3152@nagual.st> In-Reply-To: <3E202C89.3080306@potentialtech.com> References: <20030111145859.GA28066@nagual.st> <3E202C89.3080306@potentialtech.com>
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On 11 Jan Bill Moran wrote: > FreeBSD _does_ understand ext2. See the mount_ext2fs command for > details. Unfortunately, ext3 isn't supported yet AFAIK. So, if I switch this drive to another (fbsd) box I could copy form one (ext2) drive to another UFS drive preserving all persmission? Or would it be better to tar the drive onto the new one; reformat the old drive as UFS and untar back? > Any reason why you can't copy the contents of this partition to > another computer (via network) and then reformat it UFS while > installing FreeBSD and copy everything back? Network too slow (for a transfer of approx 35G), plus _space_ :) -- dick -- http://www.nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 4.7 ++ Debian GNU/Linux (Woody) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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