From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 9 08:59:33 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7E5716A4CE for ; Tue, 9 Mar 2004 08:59:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from lakemtao08.cox.net (lakemtao08.cox.net [68.1.17.113]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBC1743D39 for ; Tue, 9 Mar 2004 08:59:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kitbsdlists@HotPOP.com) Received: from vixen42 ([68.109.49.234]) by lakemtao08.cox.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.08 201-253-122-130-108-20031117) with SMTP id <20040309165930.FIBE12895.lakemtao08.cox.net@vixen42>; Tue, 9 Mar 2004 11:59:30 -0500 Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 08:56:37 -0600 From: Vulpes Velox To: "Eric Yellin" Message-Id: <20040309085637.14e0f630@vixen42.> In-Reply-To: <019b01c40597$f2cd2df0$0851db3e@net.migvan.co.il> References: <019b01c40597$f2cd2df0$0851db3e@net.migvan.co.il> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.9claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.9) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Migrating from RedHat 7.3 with ext3 to FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 16:59:33 -0000 On Tue, 9 Mar 2004 07:32:44 +0200 "Eric Yellin" wrote: > I have a RedHat 7.3 machine that I had to bring down do to security > problems. I have it off production to re-install and am considering > to migrate to FreeBSD. > Now here's my problem. I have a RAID 5 setup with RedHat partitions > + 1 partition I called "web" that is currently holding all the data. > It is ext3 fs. I can delete all existing partitions except for "web" > and repartition the disk for FreeBSD, however the ext3 will remain > and I fear problems or loss of data. Most critical data is backed > up, however I don't want to erase the partition unless I have no > choice. It's a 100GB partition and since my server is down it is not > connected to a backup system. So, can I keep this ext3 partition > when using FreeBSD? Is it a bad idea to do this? Also are there > other considerations I need to take into account when migrating? I > understand of course that FreeBSD is not Linux and that I will have > to setup all services and apps accordingly. You can read ext3, but not write to it in FreeBSD.