From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 12 20:02:57 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA11044 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 20:02:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.exo.net.au (sky-valley.exo.net.au [203.14.230.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA11011 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 20:02:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bullseye.apana.org.au!andymac@mail.exo.net.au) Received: by mail.exo.net.au id m100GZ0-0004p9C (Debian Smail-3.2.0.101 1997-Dec-17 #2); Wed, 13 Jan 1999 14:01:46 +1100 (EST) Received: from bullseye.apana.org.au (central.apana.org.au [203.9.107.245]) by bullseye.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA00683; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 08:40:28 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au) Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 08:40:22 +1100 (EDT) From: Andrew MacIntyre To: Kieran cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dual/Triple boot In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-X-Sender: andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, Kieran wrote: {...} > 2. Can I mount Linux file systems (eg my Linux home)? If you the ext2fs support to your kernel, yes. Can't remember whether its supported in any 2.2.x release, but would be there in 3.0. {...} > 3. (Probably off-topic) Can I adjust an extended partition to reclaim > space? Yes, if you have the tools. From what I've heard, the commercial product Partition Magic can do this easily, and at least in v3 and later knows about linux partitions. The other way that comes to mind involves a fixit floppy (process is archive the contents of the partition to another partition, blow away partition and recreate in fdisk, newfs, restore from archive). You would still need something like Partition Magic to relocate partitions to maximise your free space. {...} > As you can see, the swap space isn't exactly overworked... :) > However, in both the linux and FreeBSD setup routines, I got dire > warnings (or dark hints) about what happens when you don't have enough > swap. I feel that perhaps this may have been overstated for a box with > this much memory. Any opinions? Someone (David Greenman?) recently noted that you must have no less swap space than real memory, for FreeBSD. -- Andrew I MacIntyre "These thoughts are mine alone..." E-mail: andrew.macintyre@aba.gov.au (work) | Snail: PO Box 370 andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au (play) | Belconnen ACT 2616 Fido: Andrew MacIntyre, 3:620/243.18 | Australia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message