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Date:      Sat, 2 Jan 1999 21:03:34 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To:        Donny Lee <donnylee@usa.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Linux ext2 filesystem
Message-ID:  <19990102210334.A46850@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <368E4CAD.49D40F5C@usa.net>; from "Donny Lee" on Sun Jan  3 00:43:25 GMT 1999
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901020157320.11212-100000@guru.phone.net> <368E4CAD.49D40F5C@usa.net>

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In the last episode (Jan 03), Donny Lee said:
> 
>  Hi there, 
> 
>  Is bsd able to use linux ext2 file system? I looked at the 
>  mount man page and found it seems ok, but find no way to 
>  make a ext2 partition under bsd. 

Yes, FreeBSD can read and write ext2 filesystems created by Linux. 
Add the line 

options "EXT2FS"

to your kernel config file and recompile.

If you want to create an ext2 filesystem, create it under Linux.  the
ext2fs support under FreeBSD is mainly for people migrating from Linux
to FreeBSD, so they can copy their old data over to a FFS filesystem.

	-Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com

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