From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 5 20:59:27 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3B2816A4DE for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2006 20:59:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jordilin@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com (nz-out-0102.google.com [64.233.162.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4750E43D62 for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2006 20:59:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jordilin@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id 13so1021847nzn for ; Tue, 05 Sep 2006 13:59:23 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=REQj5rrir0CLjaWyiobrhTudwAeyvyiNi/kCsS90DOxLqQGkBgr+Bt44ApDDps8G8DGLMAxrKyBgt/9NgbWA+AbWFIkzTHQ4oxiFZcXwjeux7KflupkmHfy3rmOS0GUTnpFRgcCcocFTLJsa6V7a1TEvzlB1MZAyJJU4+AeAq98= Received: by 10.64.209.6 with SMTP id h6mr5352798qbg; Tue, 05 Sep 2006 13:59:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.65.231.11 with HTTP; Tue, 5 Sep 2006 13:59:23 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <94ff3700609051359la8926f0hc0cc701001d120b1@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 22:59:23 +0200 From: "Jordi Carrillo" To: "Bill Moran" In-Reply-To: <20060905165313.c7dc1f11.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <94ff3700609051322m1c63420xe5e6e379a21906b2@mail.gmail.com> <62577AB3-E7BF-488F-8903-8DE9BB53452B@mac.com> <94ff3700609051341g57aae9b1gb7ce05f04f3c2d12@mail.gmail.com> <121D3BD0-623D-4019-94ED-BA271481D830@mac.com> <20060905165313.c7dc1f11.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: FreeBSD Mailing Lists Subject: Re: Backing up 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: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 20:59:27 -0000 Just a doubt: FFS is not the same as UFS (unix filesystem)??? I installed FreeBSD and let FreeBSD to partition my hard drive and in fstab I have the partitions mounted as UFS. thanks 2006/9/5, Bill Moran : > > In response to Chuck Swiger : > > > On Sep 5, 2006, at 1:41 PM, Jordi Carrillo wrote: > > > I was thinking about using rdiff-backup to do incremental backups > > > and ext2 type filesystem, as I don't use windows at all. Ext2 > > > because I sometimes switch to Linux. I don't know if FFS is > > > recognized by Linux. > > > > I think modern flavors of Linux support FFS OK, so FFS should work, > > otherwise ext2... > > Note that I don't believe that any Linuxi support FFS2, but it's been > several months since I've checked. I also seem to remember warnings > about buggy FFS drivers for Linux. Are the ext2 drivers for FreeBSD > stable? > > If you format FFS, make sure to do FFS1 -- FFS2 is the default in newer > versions of FreeBSD. ext2 might be a safer bet. > > -- > Bill Moran > Collaborative Fusion Inc. > -- http://jordilin.wordpress.com