From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 8 10:48:44 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 33AAA106566B for ; Sun, 8 Nov 2009 10:48:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mail25@bzerk.org) Received: from ei.bzerk.org (tunnel490.ipv6.xs4all.nl [IPv6:2001:888:10:1ea::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A4508FC19 for ; Sun, 8 Nov 2009 10:48:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ei.bzerk.org (BOFH@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ei.bzerk.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id nA8Amcaj064759; Sun, 8 Nov 2009 11:48:38 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mail25@bzerk.org) Received: (from bulk@localhost) by ei.bzerk.org (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id nA8AmbjN064758; Sun, 8 Nov 2009 11:48:37 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mail25@bzerk.org) Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 11:48:37 +0100 From: Ruben de Groot To: Carl Johnson Message-ID: <20091108104837.GA64633@ei.bzerk.org> Mail-Followup-To: Ruben de Groot , Carl Johnson , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20091107223558.GB61756@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <20091107230703.GA94028@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk> <87639lpmj6.fsf@cjlinux.localnet> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87639lpmj6.fsf@cjlinux.localnet> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.2 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00, SUBJECT_FUZZY_TION autolearn=no version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on ei.bzerk.org X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0.1 (ei.bzerk.org [127.0.0.1]); Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:48:41 +0100 (CET) Cc: 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 10:48:44 -0000 On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 10:18:21PM -0800, Carl Johnson typed: > 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. This has been patched: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/124621 Ruben