From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 22 12:59: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (fac13.ds.psu.edu [146.186.61.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1207E37BABE for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 12:59:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fac13.ds.psu.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA04279 for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 15:58:56 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Message-Id: <200006221958.PAA04279@fac13.ds.psu.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: ext2 and FreeBSD Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 15:58:56 -0400 From: "Richard E. Hawkins" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I saw the question on using FreeBSD on an ext2 file system, but I've lost it. Be *very* careful doing this. This is a bit stale, but I haven't seen anything since then about the topic, so . . . With 3.2, I used an ext2 partition for home, as I was sharing it with linux. I couldn't find a couple of the apps I needed, iirc, and didn't want to duplicate home. There were occasional random writes to the drive--it would be writing, and it dumped garbage in the middle of the file. I saw this in individual files in /home, and in /var/spool/mail (which was linked to the ext2 system). It may be that this is fixed by now; I never got any response to my reports of the problem or later questions asking if it was fixed. The other dangerous possibility occurs if linux tries to mount a ufs partition as ext2. This is *very* easy to do--when you add a partition within your slice, you change the names of all partitions after that slice. When linux trys to mount a ufs partition as ext2, it trashes the partition table. You can reenter your partitions if you know where tehy were. hawk -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. Assistant Professor of Economics, Pennsylvania State University (814) 375-4700 http://eyry.econ.iastate.edu/hawk These opinions will not be those of Penn State until it pays my retainer. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message