Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 23:46:42 +0100 From: RW <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sharing ext3 partition Message-ID: <200505172346.43445.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> In-Reply-To: <200505170924.41163.freebsd@usmstudent.com> References: <200505170924.41163.freebsd@usmstudent.com>
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On Tuesday 17 May 2005 15:24, backdoc wrote: > I have a laptop partitioned up into a mixture of Windows and Linux > partitions. I was thinking about wiping the Ubuntu partition and putting > FreeBSD 5.4 in its place. However, there are a couple of concerns that I > have before doing this. > > 1) Everything except for the NTFS partition is inside of an extended > partition. > > If I delete the Ubuntu partition, will FreeBSD install in an extended > partition? No, you may be able to resize it though. You are allowed 4 primary partions, one of which may be an extended partition. FreeBSD install on a single primary partion and places all it's native partions inside it without it counting as the one extended partition. > 2) I use one Linux partition to keep all regular user documents that > Ubuntu and Gentoo share (eg. photos, OpenOffice documents and etc.) > > Does FreeBSD fully support ext3 writing? No, but ext3 is compatible with ext2 provided that fsck understands ext3 journals, which I believe is the case with FreeBSD. > Any drawbacks to sharing an ext3 > partition between Gentoo and FreeBSD? Since you'll be using it as ext2 (probably with synchronous writes) writing may be slow under FreeBSD.
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