From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 21 05:14:34 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EE4FDADB for ; Tue, 21 Jan 2014 05:14:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-x22c.google.com (mail-wi0-x22c.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c05::22c]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8911C11A9 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 2014 05:14:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wi0-f172.google.com with SMTP id ex4so3937291wid.17 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2014 21:14:31 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type; bh=sPEII1h3Xtp/Z5UpzPCu3yMQyK41HzlMh0Lqr3fcvio=; b=JNl9NdAzMHIcNN8HiJ7H7oa6lzyNCYjADIcvy1+zbit/mMyCHNHh9Xjwf4iDLQh4uW aX2wyEYLNTeRBUSxWLP65/baJqMJzgVkSltWQwcznEvhImprwUZi7nd+9mlG3Ey4c18S 8xwTvAH8GTD8BwySbgBzCz/McCYzpTgytbP1KORbd3T6gQpF8997yj+TRkQNaBres2nq XlVyHCxweStHTR8j3V3fPaESQQZY1xcX5L25TCndyR298E9sm7NukZ8NWalO6/PVwIS9 0HdNyvaJXbc4ciY2jtMeFyPBmR3qYosHGI4mDnky7n6uFcMpfF/hDi12lo/Er6bXOsBd mZYQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.180.11.142 with SMTP id q14mr12790386wib.45.1390281271549; Mon, 20 Jan 2014 21:14:31 -0800 (PST) Sender: olivier2553@gmail.com Received: by 10.216.82.70 with HTTP; Mon, 20 Jan 2014 21:14:31 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20140121060405.396586d4.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20140121060405.396586d4.freebsd@edvax.de> Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 12:14:31 +0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: zX57GizrtGZoamhUuO0C-MbPtjo Message-ID: Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Linux shared installation From: Olivier Nicole To: Polytropon Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: FreeBSD Questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 05:14:34 -0000 Hi, > Swap: Can the two Linusi share the same swap partition? And I do something of the sort on machines in my teaching lab. I have installed one Ubuntu on one partition, and I have another empty partition where students can install their own Ubuntu (for class project) and they both use one same (extended) partition. I see no reason why FreeBSD could not use it too, swap partition is supposed to be empty when the system boots, so any data/formatting done by another OS will be over written. One a side note, should you have 35GB of /home in FreeBSD partition of instead increase the size of your common space? Bests, Olivier > furthoermore, could FreeBSD also use that one? Note that the > different systems are not running at the same time, so it would > be nonsense to waste disk space for three "dedicated" swap > partitions when one is sufficient. > > Shared data partition: I'm not searching for blazing performance, > so I do not require the most recent ext10fs or RiceFat here. > The goal should be that this partition can be adressed from all > the operating systems. It doesn't have to be /home, instead it > will be mounted separately, but rw. Regarding FreeBSD, it would > nice to not require fuse here (base OS tools preferred). > > My initial partitioning and sizing idea: > > Partition OS, subpart. Size Device (slice, partition) > -------------- -------------- ------ --------------------------- > > Prim. #1 FreeBSD 55 GB /dev/ada0s1{a,d,e,f,g} > a / 1 GB > d /tmp 2 GB > e /var 2 GB > f /usr 15 GB > g /home 35 GB > > Prim. #2 swap 5 GB /dev/ada0s2(b?), /dev/sda2 > > Prim. #3 common data 10 GB /dev/adas3, /dev/sda3 > > Extend. #1 > log. dr. #1 Kali Linux 15 GB /dev/sda5 > log. dr. #2 Mageia Linux 15 GB /dev/sda6 > > Would something like this work, or is there a better approach? > > > -- > Polytropon > Magdeburg, Germany > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"