Can pfsense install to an ext3 partition

[Trel]

If I were to partition a drive with ext3, could pfsense install to that, or is the BSD partition required?

[netritious]

Have you tried to install to ext3?

[jimp]

pfSense wipes the drive and formats/installs its own ufs partition/slice scheme. You cannot install it to anything but a bare disk or it will wipe out what is on the disk and replace it with pfSense.

Why would you want to install on ext3 anyhow? pfSense is FreeBSD, not Linux.

[Trel]

@jimp:

pfSense wipes the drive and formats/installs its own ufs partition/slice scheme. You cannot install it to anything but a bare disk or it will wipe out what is on the disk and replace it with pfSense.

Why would you want to install on ext3 anyhow? pfSense is FreeBSD, not Linux.

For ability to pull the drive and read it should I need to.  I can handle windows and linux partitions, but as I don't use BSD outside of pfsense, I have no real recourse for reading that drive if I need to do so outside of pfsense.

[jimp]

Linux can read (but not write) ufs last I knew.

[stan-qaz]

Use a Live BSD CD…  http://www.livebsd.com/ to read the drive.