Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 11:48:37 +0100 From: Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org> To: Carl Johnson <carlj@peak.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Migrating from Linux (keeping partitions at install time) Message-ID: <20091108104837.GA64633@ei.bzerk.org> In-Reply-To: <87639lpmj6.fsf@cjlinux.localnet> References: <ac3d41850911071334l4fc5adf1h979c2478f7143a35@mail.gmail.com> <20091107223558.GB61756@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <20091107230703.GA94028@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk> <87639lpmj6.fsf@cjlinux.localnet>
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On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 10:18:21PM -0800, Carl Johnson typed: > 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. This has been patched: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/124621 Ruben
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