On Wednesday 29 November 2006 11:34, Daniel T. Staal wrote: > 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.)
Yes, ext3 is fully backward compatible with ext2. Obviously without journal as Vim said above. -- Bulk _______________________________________________ Openbsd-newbies mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.theapt.org/listinfo/openbsd-newbies
