Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 20:31:17 +1200 From: William James Irwin <wji@ihug.co.nz> To: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, 11@ihug.co.nz Subject: Partition maintenance Message-ID: <37BD1255.2891AA58@ihug.co.nz>
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Hi All I've recently run out of space on my freebsd slice. The solution I've thought of is to create a new slice for /usr/local (on e), I also have a seperate slice on another disk drive that contains my /home directory and some swap. So I need to copy /usr/local across, preserving all symbolic links, permissions etc. Would 'tar cf - /usr/local/* | tar xf - /mnt' work? This is of course assuming all new ports install in /usr/local (I've noticed a few install things in /usr/X11R6) I've also thought of creating a new filesystem on another disk for /usr/ports. I have another more important question. I use both Linux and Freebsd (dualbooted). I wish to have the same home directorys on both. This means I either have to use ext2fs or ufs filesystems for the home partition. I have mounted ext2fs from freebsd but I haven't had much luck with mounting a ufs filesystem from linux. Apparantly the FreeBSD slice is meant to look like an extended partition to linux. However this doesn't happen. I suspect that it has something to do with the mark number of the slice. According to linux's fdisk 'a5' is the FreeBSD mark but my freebsd slice is marked with 'b5'. So in summary, what are the merits of sharing a filesystem between these two operating systems. Is ext2fs better supported under freebsd than ufs is under linux? Thanks for your time, Regards -- William James Irwin wji@ihug.co.nz wirw002@cs.auckland.ac.nz To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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