From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 1 12:10:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhub.iastate.edu (mailhub.iastate.edu [129.186.1.102]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D42F153D2 for ; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 12:10:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rhawkins@iastate.edu) Received: from eyry.econ.iastate.edu (eyry.econ.iastate.edu [129.186.32.221]) by mailhub.iastate.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA16810; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 14:10:08 -0600 (CST) Received: from eyry.econ.iastate.edu (really [127.0.0.1]) by eyry.econ.iastate.edu via in.smtpd with esmtp (ident hawk using rfc1413) id (Debian Smail3.2.0.101) for ; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 14:10:08 -0600 (EST) Message-Id: X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 (debian) To: Chen Xu Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Q: mount ext2fs, mdir d: In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 01 Mar 1999 13:43:03 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 14:10:08 -0600 From: "Richard E. Hawkins Esq." Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chen wrote, > 2) any risk to write to ext2 partition? I mean to damage the linux > partion? yes. very badly. On 3.0, I found that at random times, random garbage would be inserted during writes. The file structure survives, but individual files get creamed. I don't know about 3.1, but I'll assume that pre-3.0 does the same. -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message