From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 17 22:47:36 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED3D016A4CE for ; Tue, 17 May 2005 22:47:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E71143D80 for ; Tue, 17 May 2005 22:47:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com) Received: from frontend3.messagingengine.com (frontend3.internal [10.202.2.152]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8ABD4C904DF for ; Tue, 17 May 2005 18:47:32 -0400 (EDT) X-Sasl-enc: iWb/05EPoy3+K0+CQtkPGp0VUbJDve+SoAaLCSc/85tR 1116370051 Received: from gumby.localhost (dsl-80-41-68-74.access.as9105.com [80.41.68.74]) by frontend3.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0772B84 for ; Tue, 17 May 2005 18:47:30 -0400 (EDT) From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 23:46:42 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <200505170924.41163.freebsd@usmstudent.com> In-Reply-To: <200505170924.41163.freebsd@usmstudent.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200505172346.43445.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> Subject: Re: sharing ext3 partition X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 22:47:37 -0000 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.