From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 4 23:30:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dartagnan.maths.adelaide.edu.au (dartagnan.maths.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.44.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8A52C14C1B for ; Tue, 4 May 1999 23:30:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from glewis@dartagnan.maths.adelaide.edu.au) Received: by dartagnan.maths.adelaide.edu.au (5.64+1.3.1+0.50/UA-5.19) id AA02471; Wed, 5 May 1999 16:00:28 +0930 From: Gregory Lewis Message-Id: <9905050630.AA02471@dartagnan.maths.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Sharing Files w/ Linux in Same Box In-Reply-To: from Doug White at "May 4, 99 04:01:47 pm" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 16:00:28 +0930 (CST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1202 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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. I believe recent kernels can mount ufs partitions (I haven't actually tried it though). By recent I'm meaning late in the 2.1 series and 2.2. Redhat 5.0 would be using 2.0 though -- for which I believe there may be read only ufs code available as patches. -- Greg Lewis glewis@trc.adelaide.edu.au Computing Officer +61 8 8303 3237 Teletraffic Research Centre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message