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Subject: Re: ext3 support
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On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 18:06:29 +0100
"Benjamin Sobotta" <mayday@gmx.net> wrote:

> > dear list,
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> > does freebsd 6.x support the ext3 filesystem?
> > 
> > TIA
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> Hi!
> 
> AFAIK it doesn't support ext3. However, it supports ext2, which is
> structurally the same as ext2 except that it doesn't do any
> journaling. Hence, you should be able to mount and use ext3 except
> that the journal will not be used.

There's fsck support for syncing the ext3 journal. I think it's in a
port, but I can't remember which.