mounting ext3

[Daniel T. Staal]

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.)

> I cannot read the man pages because I am in the office and my only
> chance to "play around" is in the late evening.

The internet is a wonderful thing.  ;)  (And contains the OpenBSD man pages.)

Daniel T. Staal

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