Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 18:29:14 +0200 From: Ed Jobs <oloringr@gmail.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mounting ext3 for rw Message-ID: <201001041829.14951.oloringr@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20100104155819.GA1154@mycenae.net> References: <20100104155819.GA1154@mycenae.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Monday 04 January 2010 17:58, Zoran Kolic wrote: > Hi all! > I prepare to make plug music server with usb connected hard drive, > formated ext3, since the system is ubuntu 9.04 as default. My > rips are back-uped on spare usb disk, formated as ufs. My idea is > to copy files from ufs to ext3 drive, using freebsd. I would > probably enconter inode problem, since modern linuces use inode > as 256, but bsd uses it as 128. I could use knoppix and format > is with -I 128 flag. In ports available is e2fsprogs package with > some utilities that might help. I could also take another approach > and use rsync to avoid all inode puzzles. > What would you recommend as the most reliable? Mounting ext3 as > ext2 poses the question of making it "dirty" and necessity to > fsck it first on linux system. Also, I found some posts of ina- > bility to have the job done this way on branch 7. I have 8.0 > on the laptop I write this and (if memory serves me well) 7.1 > on old desktop. > Best reagards > > Zoran > i have been using the e2fsprogs from the ports collection since 8.0-BETA2 without any problems*, i think that it will work for you. * the partition which i mounted was a 256 one too -- Real programmers don't document. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand. [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAktCF1oACgkQBPpdVEWKA32V+gCfePd+Ln4afo3fqtp88RNn1oXR i4kAnjjUbyKY+1XYZ/2+Z+apQBNfLc71 =YLHt -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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