On 17 December 2013 00:26, Donald Allen <[email protected]> wrote: > Your subject asks about the stability of the ext2 support in OpenBSD, > but your message says you have an ext3 partition you want to access. > ext2 and ext3 are not the same thing -- ext3 is a journaled variant of > ext2 that OpenBSD does not support.
It is my understanding that an ext3 file system is also a valid ext2 file system. You merely can't use journaling, htrees, or grow the FS while in ext2 mode. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext3#cite_ref-9

