From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 4 16: 4:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0B8515888 for ; Tue, 4 May 1999 16:03:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA05341; Tue, 4 May 1999 16:01:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 16:01:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: "Booth, Christopher" Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" , "'cbooth@aixx.net'" Subject: Re: Sharing Files w/ Linux in Same Box In-Reply-To: <199905042029.QAA09504@interlock.mgh.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message