From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 1 12:16:20 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57387106566B for ; Mon, 1 Jun 2009 12:16:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from samankaya@netscape.net) Received: from imo-d06.mx.aol.com (imo-d06.mx.aol.com [205.188.157.38]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24D238FC13 for ; Mon, 1 Jun 2009 12:16:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from samankaya@netscape.net) Received: from imo-ma04.mx.aol.com (imo-ma04.mx.aol.com [64.12.78.139]) by imo-d06.mx.aol.com (v107.10) with ESMTP id RELAYIN3-44a23c33e3c4; Mon, 01 Jun 2009 08:02:06 -0400 Received: from samankaya@netscape.net by imo-ma04.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v40_r1.5.) id n.c46.5803b6e6 (37116) for ; Mon, 1 Jun 2009 08:02:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from smtprly-da03.mx.aol.com (smtprly-da03.mx.aol.com [205.188.249.146]) by cia-ma01.mx.aol.com (v123.4) with ESMTP id MAILCIAMA012-5bbb4a23c3342cb; Mon, 01 Jun 2009 08:02:03 -0400 Received: from webmail-md07 (webmail-md07.webmail.aol.com [64.12.170.145]) by smtprly-da03.mx.aol.com (v123.4) with ESMTP id MAILSMTPRLYDA032-5bbb4a23c3342cb; Mon, 01 Jun 2009 08:01:56 -0400 To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2009 08:01:56 -0400 X-MB-Message-Source: WebUI X-AOL-IP: 64.12.78.139 X-MB-Message-Type: User MIME-Version: 1.0 From: samankaya@netscape.net X-Mailer: AIM WebMail 42952-STANDARD Received: from 81.178.2.118 by webmail-md07.sysops.aol.com (64.12.170.145) with HTTP (WebMailUI); Mon, 01 Jun 2009 08:01:56 -0400 Message-Id: <8CBB0C7E503F8B8-BAC-6135@webmail-md07.sysops.aol.com> X-Spam-Flag: NO Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Want to install FreeBSD - need advice on Writable filesystems? X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:16:20 -0000 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