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Date:      Fri, 12 Aug 2005 10:30:06 -0700
From:      garys@opusnet.com (Gary W. Swearingen)
To:        Dmitry Mityugov <dmitry.mityugov@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: differences in supported filesystems between FreeBSD versions
Message-ID:  <irk6irysf5.6ir@mail.opusnet.com>
In-Reply-To: <b7052e1e05081122446572c8b0@mail.gmail.com> (Dmitry Mityugov's message of "Fri, 12 Aug 2005 09:44:28 %2B0400")
References:  <b7052e1e05081122446572c8b0@mail.gmail.com>

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Dmitry Mityugov <dmitry.mityugov@gmail.com> writes:

> I am not sure how safe it is. Is it safe to use a HDD partitioned and
> formatted by one version of FreeBSD with a newer version? I know there

I recently ran into the problem of not being able to access 5.x file
systems and 5.x backups from a 4.x system. (5.2+ and 4.7 & 4.8, IIRC.)

(I got a new amd64 computer that wouldn't boot 5.x from the old hard
drives because I no longer had a GENERIC or other compatible kernel
and I had no Internet access or 5.x CDROM.  I could run 4.x, but it
couldn't mount 5.x partitions or even "restore" 5.x dump backups.  Had
to go back to an old 4.x backup until I got back on the Internet and
got 5.x going.)



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