Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 17:49:50 +0530 From: Aditya Sarawgi <sarawgi.aditya@gmail.com> To: samankaya@netscape.net Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Want to install FreeBSD - need advice on Writable filesystems? Message-ID: <4a2414be.02578c0a.7321.13fc@mx.google.com> In-Reply-To: <8CBB0C7E503F8B8-BAC-6135@webmail-md07.sysops.aol.com> References: <8CBB0C7E503F8B8-BAC-6135@webmail-md07.sysops.aol.com>
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On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 08:01:56AM -0400, samankaya@netscape.net wrote: > Hello all, > > This is my first post and first time on a mailing list for a very long time :) > > I am just about to switch my Debian Linux install over to a dual boot between Solaris Express Community Edition (SXCE) and FreeBSD 7.2. > > Currently my setup is as follows: > > hda1 - ext3 > hdb1 - ext3 Linux root / > hdb2 - ext3 Linux home /home > > Because of the lack of space in my network and the fact that the master IDE drive is 250GB and the slave IDE drive is 160GB I wanted to wipe / on hdb1 and reformat to UFS2 and install FreeBSD. > > However would I be able to then write to UFS of Solaris as I will reformat the master to UFS for SXCE. I read on a forum already that BSD cannot write to ext3 only ext2 and if it did write to ext3 it would be without the journal. So I am not sure if writing to ext3 from BSD is a good idea either? > > The plan though at least is to write to UFS so that I can I can just bounce my data back and forth, so when it comes down to reformatting the ext3 /home partition I won't loose any of my information! > > I do not have a SAN or NAS system or even enough space in my servers for NFS transfer which is why I need to take these measures in the first place..... > > I hope someone has a response for my dilemma - many thanks, > > Kaya > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-fs@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-fs > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-fs-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Yes currently journaling is not supported by ext2fs but you can read & write safely if the inode size of your ext2/ext3 partition is 128. If the inode size is different from 128 (which is common nowdays) then you can use the following patch http://pflog.net/~floyd/ext2fs.diff Cheers, Aditya Sarawgi
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