From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 11 8: 9: 7 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 5A73A37B428 for ; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 08:09:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from nagual.st (cc20684-a.assen1.dr.home.nl [217.120.160.32]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A36243F13 for ; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 08:09:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dick@nagual.st) Received: from lothlorien.nagual.st (dick@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nagual.st (8.12.3/8.12.3/arwen) with ESMTP id h0BG78aK003462; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 17:07:08 +0100 Received: (from dick@localhost) by lothlorien.nagual.st (8.12.3/8.12.3/local) id h0BG781q003460; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 17:07:08 +0100 From: dick hoogendijk Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 17:07:08 +0100 To: Bill Moran Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: ext3 -> fbsd Message-ID: <20030111160708.GA3152@nagual.st> References: <20030111145859.GA28066@nagual.st> <3E202C89.3080306@potentialtech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3E202C89.3080306@potentialtech.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i 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 On 11 Jan Bill Moran wrote: > FreeBSD _does_ understand ext2. See the mount_ext2fs command for > details. Unfortunately, ext3 isn't supported yet AFAIK. So, if I switch this drive to another (fbsd) box I could copy form one (ext2) drive to another UFS drive preserving all persmission? Or would it be better to tar the drive onto the new one; reformat the old drive as UFS and untar back? > 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? Network too slow (for a transfer of approx 35G), plus _space_ :) -- dick -- http://www.nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 4.7 ++ Debian GNU/Linux (Woody) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message