From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 31 13:53:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA14960 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 13:53:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA14950 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 13:53:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id WAA08229; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 22:52:25 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id WAA21708; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 22:52:25 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id WAA22491; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 22:32:04 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199601312132.WAA22491@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Converting from Linux to FreeBSD To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 22:32:04 +0100 (MET) Cc: pierce@diamondmm.com Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199601311519.QAA02179@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de> from "Greg Lehey" at Jan 31, 96 04:15:24 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)