Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 14:47:04 -0600 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net> Cc: Chip Morton <tech_info@threespace.com>, FreeBSD Chat <chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Drive/Partition Copying Utilities Message-ID: <3C7AA2C8.23553A5F@centtech.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20020224124537.018da7d0@threespace.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20020224153046.01986c18@threespace.com> <7psn7pwb0r.n7p@localhost.localdomain>
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I think you are correct.. Thats why you can easily convert from ext2 to ext3. Eric "Gary W. Swearingen" wrote: > > Chip Morton <tech_info@threespace.com> writes: > > > Does the new version allow you to resize ext2 filesystems? And has > > anybody added support for ext3 yet? (I wouldn't expect so, but while > > I'm thinking about it...) > > As I understand things (ie, not well), "ext3" is just software that > does things differently than "ext2" and the disk structures, etc, > are still "ext2". I'd expect there to be some different info in > those structures or something, but I do seem to recall reading that > the partitions can be handled the same. By all means investigate > further, but I didn't want you to just give up all hope too soon. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology If at first you don't succeed, sky diving is probably not for you. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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