Need to confirm some details about creating ext2fs partitions. Since I can't mount any part of my FreeBSD disk from OpenBSD, I need a filesystem on my OpenBSD disk that FreeBSD can read, and the only one I'm sure about here is the ext2fs fs. So, I need to take the currently created FFS partition and make it ext2fs. I already backed up the info, so I just need to verify some things, which are really different than what I'm sued to, so I really need to be sure.
First, it seems I need to make no changes at all in either fdisk or disklabel, right? No worry about the disk type at all, huh? From what I can tell, I merely need to edit the fstab entry so that the right fs type gets moounted, and then newfs the disk, telling newfs that it's ext2fs. After that's done (after the fstab's been edited) just mount the device, not even specifying ext2fs, and it all just works, then. This is complete? And, when I boot back into FreeBSD, I can have an entry in that fstab, which sepcifies the ext2fs fs, and things'll mount. I don't even have to make it no-auto. This gets me my communications channel to/from FreeBSD/OpenBSD. I can finally stop this endless reboot cycle. I knokw I probably have this all, but dealing with disks, I always double check things (actually, I usually triple-check, but I'm chickening out here.)
