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Date:      Tue, 4 May 1999 16:01:47 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Booth, Christopher" <christopher_booth@mcgraw-hill.com>
Cc:        "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "'cbooth@aixx.net'" <cbooth@aixx.net>
Subject:   Re: Sharing Files w/ Linux in Same Box
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.03.9905041601090.28350-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199905042029.QAA09504@interlock.mgh.com>

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On Tue, 4 May 1999, Booth, Christopher wrote:

> Greetings:
> 
> I have two hard drives:
> 
> Drive one is a 1.2-GB hard drive with a 53-MB DOS partition and the rest
> given over to Red Hat Linux 5.0, and 
> 
> Drive 2 is a 2-GB hard drive dedicated to FreeBSD, running 3.1.
> 
> I would like to be able to copy some files from myself in Linux to myself in
> FreeBSD. I assume that this is possible. Can I read Linux files on my first
> hard drive from FreeBSD? And, assuming that this is possible, how can I do
> it? Pointers to relevant FMs would be most welcome. [I thought that this
> would be a matter of mounting the Linux file system, but I didn't see how to
> do that or how to call up the Linux partition. It does not appear in the
> fstab.]

FreeBSD can mount ext2fs partitions, so just mount 'em up and copy away.
I don't know if linux can can mount FreeBSD's UFS partitions though.

Doug White                               
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