From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 7 21:23:14 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0D621065670 for ; Wed, 7 Dec 2011 21:23:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alexander@leidinger.net) Received: from mail.ebusiness-leidinger.de (mail.ebusiness-leidinger.de [217.11.53.44]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 425968FC13 for ; Wed, 7 Dec 2011 21:23:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from outgoing.leidinger.net (p4FC42A88.dip.t-dialin.net [79.196.42.136]) by mail.ebusiness-leidinger.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6853684400D; Wed, 7 Dec 2011 22:23:01 +0100 (CET) Received: from unknown (IO.Leidinger.net [192.168.1.12]) by outgoing.leidinger.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E5D454A2; Wed, 7 Dec 2011 22:22:58 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 22:22:57 +0100 From: Alexander Leidinger To: "Thomas Mueller" Message-ID: <20111207222257.000023be@unknown> References: <20111206153259.501d81bb@gumby.homeunix.com> <8hs8n18830xu53rutk34votl.1323170350012@email.android.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.10cvs7 (GTK+ 2.16.6; i586-pc-mingw32msvc) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-EBL-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-EBL-MailScanner-ID: 6853684400D.AF500 X-EBL-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-EBL-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, spamhaus-ZEN, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-1, required 6, autolearn=disabled, ALL_TRUSTED -1.00) X-EBL-MailScanner-From: alexander@leidinger.net X-EBL-MailScanner-Watermark: 1323897781.73397@GgaSNnWaDhPv3E51gyTQRw X-EBL-Spam-Status: No Cc: RW , Zhihao Yuan , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux compatibility with more than one Linux installed? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2011 21:23:14 -0000 On Wed, 7 Dec 2011 11:56:49 +0000 (GMT) "Thomas Mueller" wrote: > Too much to quote here without making a mess, and I want to get to > bed, but thanks for all the ideas. > > I noticed the advice with emulators/wine that running programs on an > actual MS-Windows partition can make a mess of said partition; wonder > if there would be such a hazard with Linux instead of MS-Windows. It depends. I can not comment upon the quality of the ext2fs part of FreeBSD, but the linuxulator itself will not destroy anything. Theoretically it can be the case that a sloppy programmed (linux-)tool may destroy some data if it wants to use something which does not work, but in this case I would say it is the fault of the tool to not check for errors... Or let's say it differently: if it destroys something, you should have played Lotto instead of doing whatever you did... ;-) Bye, Alexander. -- http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID = B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID = 72077137