Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2009 08:01:56 -0400 From: samankaya@netscape.net To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Want to install FreeBSD - need advice on Writable filesystems? Message-ID: <8CBB0C7E503F8B8-BAC-6135@webmail-md07.sysops.aol.com>
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Hello all, This is my first post and first time on a mailing list for a very long time :) I am just about to switch my Debian Linux install over to a dual boot between Solaris Express Community Edition (SXCE) and FreeBSD 7.2. Currently my setup is as follows: hda1 - ext3 hdb1 - ext3 Linux root / hdb2 - ext3 Linux home /home Because of the lack of space in my network and the fact that the master IDE drive is 250GB and the slave IDE drive is 160GB I wanted to wipe / on hdb1 and reformat to UFS2 and install FreeBSD. However would I be able to then write to UFS of Solaris as I will reformat the master to UFS for SXCE. I read on a forum already that BSD cannot write to ext3 only ext2 and if it did write to ext3 it would be without the journal. So I am not sure if writing to ext3 from BSD is a good idea either? The plan though at least is to write to UFS so that I can I can just bounce my data back and forth, so when it comes down to reformatting the ext3 /home partition I won't loose any of my information! I do not have a SAN or NAS system or even enough space in my servers for NFS transfer which is why I need to take these measures in the first place..... I hope someone has a response for my dilemma - many thanks, Kaya
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