From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 11 7:33:45 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 7961637B401 for ; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 07:33:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from mired.org (ip68-97-54-220.ok.ok.cox.net [68.97.54.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1965843F65 for ; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 07:33:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm-dated-1042731222.f3f6c7@mired.org) Received: (qmail 65671 invoked from network); 11 Jan 2003 15:33:42 -0000 Received: from localhost.mired.org (HELO guru.mired.org) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.mired.org with SMTP; 11 Jan 2003 15:33:42 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15904.14677.610284.874701@guru.mired.org> Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 09:33:41 -0600 To: dick hoogendijk Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: ext3 -> fbsd In-Reply-To: <20030111145859.GA28066@nagual.st> References: <20030111145859.GA28066@nagual.st> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`; h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.68 (Shut Out) 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 In <20030111145859.GA28066@nagual.st>, dick hoogendijk typed: > 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 ? You have two choices: One: put it on a file system that both Linux and FreeBSD understand. As far as I know, that's either ext2 or fat32. I don't recommend that, as you'll take a performance hit in doing so, and may take a stability hit as well. The other alternative is to save the data in an archive on a different disk. Then reformat the ext3 file system as ffs under freebsd, and extract the archive into it. Tar would be the unix archive format, but bzip2 will probably take less space. http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message