Re: Migrating from Linux: mounting ext2fs
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 15:03:17 +0100 Miguel Gonçalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear BSDers, > > I am about to move a workgroup server from Linux to FreeBSD. > > How stable is the FreeBSD support for ext2fs? It should be able to read it with out probs. Not sure about writeing. Just mount the drive and copy the contects over the the bsd one. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Migrating from Linux: mounting ext2fs
On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 07:03, Miguel Gonçalves wrote: > How stable is the FreeBSD support for ext2fs? First, if you're planning to migrate your server permanently, you're probably better off reformatting in UFS: it's faster, and better for error recovery. And computers that mount nfs/Samba/whatever shares won't know the difference. If you insist on keeping your partitions in ext2fs: I've seen a couple of problems related to fsck. In particular, when a filesystem is dirty, fsck.ext2 sometimes finds and fixes the problems but then fails to mark the disk as clean (meaning that FreeBSD will refuse to mount it, if you've specified read/write, and it'll be checked again next time you reboot, and so forth). Personally, I've only seen this with ext3 (journaled) filesystems, but I don't know if that's universal. So, to be safe, you'll probably want an rc script that mounts -r any of your ext2 systems that were skipped. (Note that if /mnt/linux fails to mount because it was dirty, /mnt/linux/usr, etc. will also fail to mount.) This way, if the server gets hard-reset somehow, your users will still be able to access their files, even if they aren't able to update them, until you fix things. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Migrating from Linux: mounting ext2fs
Hi Miguel! Miguel_Gonçalves écrit: > Dear BSDers, > > I am about to move a workgroup server from Linux to FreeBSD. > > How stable is the FreeBSD support for ext2fs? I am currently using it happily (for the same purpose as yours). Beware that the fsck_ext2fs needs to be re-linked if you want to automount your partition (I still have the issue - I did not figure out how to statically link it so that it does not require libc.so before mounting /usr). Any help on this one, anyone? Thanks in advance Olivier ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Migrating from Linux: mounting ext2fs
Dear BSDers, I am about to move a workgroup server from Linux to FreeBSD. How stable is the FreeBSD support for ext2fs? Best regards, Miguel Gonçalves [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.fe.up.pt/~miguelg/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
