mounting ext3 for rw

[Ed Jobs]

On Monday 04 January 2010 17:58, Zoran Kolic wrote:
> Hi all!
> I prepare to make plug music server with usb connected hard drive,
> formated ext3, since the system is ubuntu 9.04 as default. My
> rips are back-uped on spare usb disk, formated as ufs. My idea is
> to copy files from ufs to ext3 drive, using freebsd. I would
> probably enconter inode problem, since modern linuces use inode
> as 256, but bsd uses it as 128. I could use knoppix and format
> is with -I 128 flag. In ports available is e2fsprogs package with
> some utilities that might help. I could also take another approach
> and use rsync to avoid all inode puzzles.
> What would you recommend as the most reliable? Mounting ext3 as
> ext2 poses the question of making it "dirty" and necessity to
> fsck it first on linux system. Also, I found some posts of ina-
> bility to have the job done this way on branch 7. I have 8.0
> on the laptop I write this and (if memory serves me well) 7.1
> on old desktop.
> Best reagards
> 
>                                    Zoran
> 
i have been using the e2fsprogs from the ports collection since 8.0-BETA2 
without any problems*, i think that it will work for you.

* the partition which i mounted was a 256 one too
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