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Date:      Fri, 9 Mar 2007 18:12:06 +0000
From:      RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ext3 support
Message-ID:  <20070309181206.4760765e@gumby.homeunix.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070308170629.269230@gmx.net>
References:  <45F0300E.5070800@gmx.net> <20070308170629.269230@gmx.net>

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On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 18:06:29 +0100
"Benjamin Sobotta" <mayday@gmx.net> wrote:

> > dear list,
> > 
> > does freebsd 6.x support the ext3 filesystem?
> > 
> > TIA
> > 
> > zheyu
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> Hi!
> 
> AFAIK it doesn't support ext3. However, it supports ext2, which is
> structurally the same as ext2 except that it doesn't do any
> journaling. Hence, you should be able to mount and use ext3 except
> that the journal will not be used.

There's fsck support for syncing the ext3 journal. I think it's in a
port, but I can't remember which. 



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