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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.
> 
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