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From: Frank Shute <frank@shute.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: Migrating from Linux (keeping partitions at install time)
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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,

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 Frank

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