From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Feb 25 12:49:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from proxy.centtech.com (moat.centtech.com [206.196.95.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 400BD37B400 for ; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 12:49:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from sprint.centtech.com (sprint.centtech.com [10.177.173.31]) by proxy.centtech.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g1PKn4K03984; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 14:49:04 -0600 (CST) Received: from centtech.com (proton [10.177.173.77]) by sprint.centtech.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA03714; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 14:49:03 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <3C7AA2C8.23553A5F@centtech.com> Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 14:47:04 -0600 From: Eric Anderson Reply-To: anderson@centtech.com Organization: Centaur Technology X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Gary W. Swearingen" Cc: Chip Morton , FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: Drive/Partition Copying Utilities References: <4.3.2.7.2.20020224124537.018da7d0@threespace.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20020224153046.01986c18@threespace.com> <7psn7pwb0r.n7p@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I think you are correct.. Thats why you can easily convert from ext2 to ext3. Eric "Gary W. Swearingen" wrote: > > Chip Morton 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