Migrating from Linux (keeping partitions at install time)

[Ruben de Groot]

On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 10:18:21PM -0800, Carl Johnson typed:
> Frank Shute <frank at shute.org.uk> writes:
> 
> > On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 05:35:58PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote:
> >>
> > [snip]
> >> 
> >> Not so sure I did anything for your most important question - if ext2 s ext3
> >> is a problem, but I hope the rest is helpful.
> >> 
> >
> > No, it's not a problem Jerry. ext3 is basically ext2 + journal, so you
> > can mount it at as ext2 from within FreeBSD (or Linux).
> >
> > The journal sorts itself out when you boot Linux and it mounts the
> > filesystem as ext3.
> 
> I haven't been able to mount some ext3 filesystems.  When I
> experimented, it appears that most new ext3 filesystems default to 256
> byte inodes.  When I created a filesystem with 128 byte inodes then
> FreeBSD could mount it just fine.  I didn't try ext2, but I think the
> inode is independent of ext2 or ext3.  This is for FreeBSD
> 7.1-RELEASE, so maybe things have changed for 7.2 or 8.0.

This has been patched:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/124621

Ruben