From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 21 09:12:37 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6333A9FE for ; Tue, 21 Jan 2014 09:12:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from sola.nimnet.asn.au (paqi.nimnet.asn.au [115.70.110.159]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A5DC0164E for ; Tue, 21 Jan 2014 09:12:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sola.nimnet.asn.au (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id s0L9CEiV083978; Tue, 21 Jan 2014 20:12:14 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 20:12:14 +1100 (EST) From: Ian Smith To: Olivier Nicole Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Linux shared installation In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20140121193035.K25136@sola.nimnet.asn.au> References: <20140121172736.A25136@sola.nimnet.asn.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Polytropon , "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 09:12:37 -0000 On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 14:50:20 +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote: > Hi, G'day Olivier, > > Should be good. I tend to disagree with Olivier about not having a > > separate /home, and I recall you also being a fan of dump/restore, > > I advocate a separate file system for /home, but I was suggesting to > join that with the Prim #3 partition below, not having one file system > for /home and one other file system for /common (as it reduces the > fragmentation, and what is common is the data, usually located in > /home). The main issue there is that from FreeBSD you'd be working with a (say) ext2/3 partition as /home, when you really have to be sure that FreeBSD handles R/W flawlessly with it rather than with UFS2+SU(+J), especially regarding crash recovery. Perhaps with FUSE that might be solid enough, but personally I tend to trust native formats and tools better, whether from the FreeBSD or Linux side. > > > Extend. #1 > > > log. dr. #1 Kali Linux 15 GB /dev/sda5 > > > log. dr. #2 Mageia Linux 15 GB /dev/sda6 > > > > From FreeBSD accessing my old OS/2 partitions I seem to recall that > > /dev/ada0s5 is the ext drive itself, and within would be ada0s6 and s7, > > though the above nomenclature would be right from Linux' POV. > > In Linux too (Ubuntu) the Extended #1 is partition #4 and being > splited into logical partition #5 and #6. Basically what you write > Ian, but you missed the #4: /dev/ada0s4 is the ext drive itself, and > within would be ada0s5 and s6... I'm still not sure about that from FreeBSD's perspective. Remembering back to '98-'99 when I salvaged years of OS/2 work, especially code, and those disks only had 3 primary partitions ('C:', OS/2 Boot Manager, then drives D: through I: or J: on the extended partition, but with no s4 I still had to start at s5, with s6 the first mountable partition (after having built the HPFS code which is still in the tree, at 9.1 anyway). However I may be misremembering (non-ECC memory :) so perhaps Polytropon could show us an 'ls /dev/ada0*' when it's done? cheers, Ian