Date: Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:18:21 -0800 From: Carl Johnson <carlj@peak.org> To: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> Cc: David Chanters <david.chanters@googlemail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Migrating from Linux (keeping partitions at install time) Message-ID: <87639lpmj6.fsf@cjlinux.localnet> In-Reply-To: <20091107230703.GA94028@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk> (Frank Shute's message of "Sat\, 7 Nov 2009 23\:07\:03 %2B0000") References: <ac3d41850911071334l4fc5adf1h979c2478f7143a35@mail.gmail.com> <20091107223558.GB61756@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <20091107230703.GA94028@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk>
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Frank Shute <frank@shute.org.uk> writes: > On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 05:35:58PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: >> > [snip] >> >> Not so sure I did anything for your most important question - if ext2 s ext3 >> is a problem, but I hope the rest is helpful. >> > > No, it's not a problem Jerry. ext3 is basically ext2 + journal, so you > can mount it at as ext2 from within FreeBSD (or Linux). > > The journal sorts itself out when you boot Linux and it mounts the > filesystem as ext3. I haven't been able to mount some ext3 filesystems. When I experimented, it appears that most new ext3 filesystems default to 256 byte inodes. When I created a filesystem with 128 byte inodes then FreeBSD could mount it just fine. I didn't try ext2, but I think the inode is independent of ext2 or ext3. This is for FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE, so maybe things have changed for 7.2 or 8.0. -- Carl Johnson carlj@peak.org
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