Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 22:32:04 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Cc: pierce@diamondmm.com Subject: Re: Converting from Linux to FreeBSD Message-ID: <199601312132.WAA22491@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199601311519.QAA02179@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de> from "Greg Lehey" at Jan 31, 96 04:15:24 pm
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As Greg Lehey wrote: > > > does freeBSD support the ext2 file system from linux w/o > > reformatting? > > No, sorry. You'll have to convert everything to ufs. This is not exactly true however. The ext2fs code is there, but it's still considered somewhat experimental and thus not yet available in any release. So the correct answer is: FreeBSD does support ext2fs, but we would rather recommend you backing up your disks and use ufs instead, since this has been much more tested. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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