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On Tuesday 29 November 2005 14:05, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> arden <arden@nildram.co.uk> writes:
> > I want to duel boot BSD with Slackware whats the best Linux file system
> > to use for reading and write to I would normally use ReiserFS would this
> > be ok ?
>
> reiserfs support in FreeBSD is read-only at the moment.  I believe the
> only filesystem that can be written to by both Linux and FreeBSD is FAT.

The last time I dual-booted to linux I used an ext3 partition to exchange 
data, FreeBSD can read/write this as ext2.