From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 8 10:31:08 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0AA81065670 for ; Sun, 8 Nov 2009 10:31:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from carlj@peak.org) Received: from mailscanner1.peak.org (mailscanner1.peak.org [69.59.192.37]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E2C18FC08 for ; Sun, 8 Nov 2009 10:31:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from peak-mail-gateway.peak.org (mail01.peak.org [69.59.192.41]) by mailscanner1.peak.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id nA8AV3PB015732; Sun, 8 Nov 2009 02:31:03 -0800 Received: from cjlinux.localnet (dialup-4.242.232.236.Dial1.Seattle1.Level3.net [4.242.232.236]) (authenticated bits=0) by peak-mail-gateway.peak.org (8.12.10/8.12.8) with ESMTP id nA8AUsEt037131 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 8 Nov 2009 02:31:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from carlj by cjlinux.localnet with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1N716T-0006qP-AA; Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:18:21 -0800 To: Jerry McAllister References: <20091107223558.GB61756@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <20091107230703.GA94028@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk> From: Carl Johnson Date: Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:18:21 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20091107230703.GA94028@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk> (Frank Shute's message of "Sat\, 7 Nov 2009 23\:07\:03 +0000") Message-ID: <87639lpmj6.fsf@cjlinux.localnet> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-mailscanner1-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-mailscanner1-MailScanner-ID: nA8AV3PB015732 X-mailscanner1-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-mailscanner1-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-2.485, required 6, AWL -0.09, BAYES_00 -2.60, DATE_IN_PAST_03_06 0.04, SUBJECT_FUZZY_TION 0.16) X-mailscanner1-MailScanner-From: carlj@peak.org X-Spam-Status: No Cc: David Chanters , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Migrating from Linux (keeping partitions at install time) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:31:08 -0000 Frank Shute writes: > On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 05:35:58PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: >> > [snip] >> >> Not so sure I did anything for your most important question - if ext2 s ext3 >> is a problem, but I hope the rest is helpful. >> > > No, it's not a problem Jerry. ext3 is basically ext2 + journal, so you > can mount it at as ext2 from within FreeBSD (or Linux). > > The journal sorts itself out when you boot Linux and it mounts the > filesystem as ext3. I haven't been able to mount some ext3 filesystems. When I experimented, it appears that most new ext3 filesystems default to 256 byte inodes. When I created a filesystem with 128 byte inodes then FreeBSD could mount it just fine. I didn't try ext2, but I think the inode is independent of ext2 or ext3. This is for FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE, so maybe things have changed for 7.2 or 8.0. -- Carl Johnson carlj@peak.org