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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 20:31:17 +1200
From: William James Irwin <wji@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


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