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Date:      Sat, 7 Nov 2009 23:07:03 +0000
From:      Frank Shute <frank@shute.org.uk>
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:  <20091107230703.GA94028@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20091107223558.GB61756@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
References:  <ac3d41850911071334l4fc5adf1h979c2478f7143a35@mail.gmail.com> <20091107223558.GB61756@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>

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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.


Regards,

-- 

 Frank

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