Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 14:51:11 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: anderson@centtech.com Cc: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net>, Chip Morton <tech_info@threespace.com>, FreeBSD Chat <chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Drive/Partition Copying Utilities Message-ID: <3C7ABFDF.4E8A6D63@mindspring.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20020224124537.018da7d0@threespace.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20020224153046.01986c18@threespace.com> <7psn7pwb0r.n7p@localhost.localdomain> <3C7AA2C8.23553A5F@centtech.com>
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Eric Anderson wrote: > "Gary W. Swearingen" wrote: > > 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. > > I think you are correct.. Thats why you can easily convert from ext2 to ext3. The real question is can you mount them ext2 after that; if not, then they are different enought that the program will need to be changed by the vendor before it can handle them. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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