From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 11 11: 6:40 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 DF2D137B401 for ; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 11:06:38 -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 0B2E643F65 for ; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 11:06:38 -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 h0BJ7mAg003708; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 14:07:48 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3E205F43.3080508@potentialtech.com> Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 13:15:31 -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> <3E202C89.3080306@potentialtech.com> <20030111160708.GA3152@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: > 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