From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 11 22:22:29 2003 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 04EFD37B405 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 22:22:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from post-20.mail.nl.demon.net (post-20.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF50843FBF for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 22:22:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cls@raggedclown.net) Received: from [212.238.197.102] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post-20.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 18iqHo-0001JV-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 06:22:24 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [dawn]) with ESMTP id 4EA49C790 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 07:22:24 +0100 (CET) Received: from willow.raggedclown.net (willow.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.10]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [dawn]) with ESMTP id B724A1AD1 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 07:22:14 +0100 (CET) Received: by willow.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [willow], from userid 1009) id B2F87225F9; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 07:22:14 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 07:22:14 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fsck_ext2fs Message-ID: <20030212062214.GD1406@raggedclown.net> References: <3E49D781.9020500@fnug.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3E49D781.9020500@fnug.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS 0.3.12pre8 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 06:11:29AM +0100, Paul A. Mayer wrote: > > Hi Patrick, > > Did you remember to install the e2fstools (i.e., e2fsck) from ports? > > BTW: I had an ext2 partion on my laptop (5.0-R) that I wanted to share > with a linux installation, which I run ocassionally on the same machine. > Essentially doing what you are talking about here (running ext2 from > freebsd in r/w mode) trashed the ext2 partion so bad that I had to newfs > it in the end. (Luckily it was just a means to move data which was > backed up elsewhere.) While that partition was still "living", I had to > boot to linux to fsck it manually (e.g., after a system crash or the > like). Otherwise, I had it marked 'noauto' in fstab, and mounted it > manually as needed. > > Now, believe it or not, I'm using a FAT32 partition to do the same data > exchange, (reasoning that both OS's support for FAT32 is better than > their respective support for ext2 or ufs). I've had no problems after > making that change. > I think there are many people who successfully use EXT2 r/w on FreeBSD, and many who don't. The comment in LINT is very cagey about it. It is undoubtedly true that the safest file system to use for data exchange on a single machine between the 2 systems is a DOS/VFAT one. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message