On Wed, November 29, 2006 11:21 am, Vim Visual said: > Hi, > > still in the process of moving to o'bsd. I have a couple of usb disks > with reiserfs format and I guess I have to change the format or I will > not be able to mount them. I was therefore thinking of ext3, since > ext2 is less and less supported. > > But, as you know, the ext3 or third extended filesystem is a > journalled file system... can mount_ext2fs or mount cope with ext3?
As far as I can tell and remember, ext3 can be treated as ext2 in nearly all cases, but you loose the journal. (In other words: it _is_ ext2 with the addtion of a journal file.) > I cannot read the man pages because I am in the office and my only > chance to "play around" is in the late evening. The internet is a wonderful thing. ;) (And contains the OpenBSD man pages.) Daniel T. Staal --------------------------------------------------------------- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of local copyright law. --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Openbsd-newbies mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.theapt.org/listinfo/openbsd-newbies
