From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 6 11:33:26 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8C03BB41 for ; Tue, 6 Jan 2015 11:33:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx01.qsc.de (mx01.qsc.de [213.148.129.14]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4B46666994 for ; Tue, 6 Jan 2015 11:33:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from r56.edvax.de (port-92-195-251-159.dynamic.qsc.de [92.195.251.159]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx01.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 836813CCFF; Tue, 6 Jan 2015 12:33:22 +0100 (CET) Received: from r56.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r56.edvax.de (8.14.5/8.14.5) with SMTP id t06BXLlC002812; Tue, 6 Jan 2015 12:33:21 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 12:33:21 +0100 From: Polytropon To: Lev Subject: Re: Questions from a Linux refugee Message-Id: <20150106123321.31c89156.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20150106115503.4870ab2e@jive> References: <20150106115503.4870ab2e@jive> Reply-To: Polytropon Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.1 (GTK+ 2.24.5; i386-portbld-freebsd8.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 11:33:26 -0000 On Tue, 6 Jan 2015 11:55:03 +0100, Lev wrote: > 1. Lack of ext4 support. As a Linux user, I have lots of disks with ext4 > partition, and I simply wanted to copy files, but failed. I might be naive, > but ext4 is open, so why can't FreeBSD have native support for ext4? Because of the amount of available file systems especially in Linux (more than 5), having them supported along with the operating system (!) is not FreeBSD's way to go. Instead you can find support in 3rd party software: The ports collection contains fuse which allows you to access many kinds of different file systems. To mount an ext4 partition, install sysutils/fusefs-ext4fuse and load the fuse.ko kernel module. Then you should be able to perform the mount operation: # ext4fuse /dev/da0s1 /mnt It's probably a good idea to add "-o ro" if you just want to copy files _from_ the ext4 partition. The OS itself has just a limited support for foreign file systems. FUSE is the right tool if you need that. > 3. Package system. I wanted to install scilab. There is (?) no binary package > for it, and the compilation took ages. After I had it, the next update deleted > it along with other packages. How to deal with the upgrades? Read the primer on pkg, if you want to use binary packages. I think scilab should have one available. https://wiki.freebsd.org/PkgPrimer https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/pkgng-intro.html More detailed info: https://wiki.freebsd.org/pkgng https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pkg&sektion=7 55! from JO52TD :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...