From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Apr 20 10: 8:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D08CC37B553 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 10:08:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djohnson@acuson.com) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.69.47]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA4634 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 10:09:32 -0700 Message-ID: <38FF3921.E8A8A2C8@acuson.com> Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 10:06:41 -0700 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Extended partitions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I understand that FreeBSD can't be installed to an extended partition, but can it read data in an extended partition? I'm doing some rearranging on my 8Gig drive, and I want more than four partitions on it to install both FreeBSD and Linux on it. It would be nice to have a shared partition between the two. Follow up question: what's the best r/w filesystem to use that both FreeBSD and Linux can access? David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message