Can FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE mount Ext3 file system ?

RW rwmaillists at googlemail.com
Wed Apr 18 13:13:26 UTC 2012


On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:12:41 +0200
Julian H. Stacey wrote:


> No mention of ext3 there, nor from find (above).
> 
> .. so you May be out of luck ..

ext3 is ext2+journalling. If fsck supports ext3, then it can sync the
journal and the partition can be safely mounted as ext2.

It's a long time since I've used ext3 so this may have changed, but
when I did it needed an fsck from ports.


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