From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 21 07:50:22 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3F8826D9 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 2014 07:50:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-we0-x236.google.com (mail-we0-x236.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c03::236]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CBA201D7E for ; Tue, 21 Jan 2014 07:50:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-we0-f182.google.com with SMTP id w62so7827103wes.13 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2014 23:50:20 -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=/p538aC7WgzY7HaRq/WUwDZ+11JZFGBC1AVcyW4K1yI=; b=VFShDFRaKFyQUk741rBtXqaUW9Nwzrl2OCqYWkHaTHfmEiefJkCZyS5GEIxlu8qGKz 4LqB2x5LYfnoh1PEUQBDdBmPdL4UImINB0/KklZo39ouAi6Yq2l1QYBT26WUj9R1fM4Z wleI8ezCfJ/4TaF/+c+LSUiWan8gPYYm1WBAmP61DvKafj/gzNpgvywR3oNimvhzkssS 72zbWfoh/Wobr2NDieqV9zAP/v1SRPfl3/ZZFQ75xKH8XPFq8AltpHLfPXsnHGvSM1+j PhA+INscEmxD69tAtD6ECX0mcAe8fQixqm0or5KH2U8lyT3AhWyq3oJsqOJMAQk3yE8v CiXw== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.180.12.146 with SMTP id y18mr13409923wib.37.1390290620139; Mon, 20 Jan 2014 23:50:20 -0800 (PST) Sender: olivier2553@gmail.com Received: by 10.216.82.70 with HTTP; Mon, 20 Jan 2014 23:50:20 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20140121172736.A25136@sola.nimnet.asn.au> References: <20140121172736.A25136@sola.nimnet.asn.au> Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 14:50:20 +0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: Vg4tzIPHXjlBSWJSxF1YprK1UFc Message-ID: Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Linux shared installation From: Olivier Nicole To: Ian Smith Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: Polytropon , "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" 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 07:50:22 -0000 Hi, > Should be good. I tend to disagree with Olivier about not having a > separate /home, and I recall you also being a fan of dump/restore, I advocate a separate file system for /home, but I was suggesting to join that with the Prim #3 partition below, not having one file system for /home and one other file system for /common (as it reduces the fragmentation, and what is common is the data, usually located in /home). > > Extend. #1 > > log. dr. #1 Kali Linux 15 GB /dev/sda5 > > log. dr. #2 Mageia Linux 15 GB /dev/sda6 > > From FreeBSD accessing my old OS/2 partitions I seem to recall that > /dev/ada0s5 is the ext drive itself, and within would be ada0s6 and s7, > though the above nomenclature would be right from Linux' POV. In Linux too (Ubuntu) the Extended #1 is partition #4 and being splited into logical partition #5 and #6. Basically what you write Ian, but you missed the #4: /dev/ada0s4 is the ext drive itself, and within would be ada0s5 and s6... Bests olivier