Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 13:15:31 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: dick hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ext3 -> fbsd Message-ID: <3E205F43.3080508@potentialtech.com> References: <20030111145859.GA28066@nagual.st> <3E202C89.3080306@potentialtech.com> <20030111160708.GA3152@nagual.st>
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dick hoogendijk wrote: > 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? Yup. Use 'cp -Rp /old/part /new/part' to maintain as many perms as possible. >>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_ :) Ouch, didn't know that you had that much data! You should be able to copy off an ext2 filesystem, though. -- 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
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