From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 11 7:30:22 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB9EF37B401 for ; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 07:30:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E041843F18 for ; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 07:30:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com ([172.16.0.95]) by mail.adelphia.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h0BFVOAg003620; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 10:31:24 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3E202C89.3080306@potentialtech.com> Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 09:39:05 -0500 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20021127 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dick hoogendijk Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: ext3 -> fbsd References: <20030111145859.GA28066@nagual.st> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG dick hoogendijk wrote: > I want to change my debian linux server into a FreeBSD one. > All's quite set up to do this fast and easy, except for one thing: in my > linux machine I have a large "LAN-shared" drive, using the EXT3 > filesystem. > > This drive must not be down too long, otherwise I get into lots of > trouble w/ my homemates :-)) (wife, children..) > > I think FreeBSD does _not_ support the linux ext2 / ext3 > What is the best way to change the filesystem on that drive? > Use another one and copy the files, sure, but how, when fbsd doesn't > understand ext2/ext3 ? FreeBSD _does_ understand ext2. See the mount_ext2fs command for details. Unfortunately, ext3 isn't supported yet AFAIK. So I guess you could reformat the filesystem as ext2 (do a dump/restore) and you'll be in business. Any reason why you can't copy the contents of this partition to another computer (via network) and then reformat it UFS while installing FreeBSD and copy everything back? -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message