dick hoogendijk wrote:
On 11 Jan Bill Moran wrote:
FreeBSD _does_ understand ext2. See the mount_ext2fs command for
details. Unfortunately, ext3 isn't supported yet AFAIK.
So, if I switch this drive to another (fbsd) box I could copy form one
(ext2) drive to another UFS drive preserving all persmission?
Or would it be better to tar the drive onto the new one; reformat the
old drive as UFS and untar back?
Yup. Use 'cp -Rp /old/part /new/part' to maintain as many perms
as possible.
Any reason why you can't copy the contents of this partition to
another computer (via network) and then reformat it UFS while
installing FreeBSD and copy everything back?
Network too slow (for a transfer of approx 35G), plus _space_ :)
Ouch, didn't know that you had that much data!
You should be able to copy off an ext2 filesystem, though.
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Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com
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