From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 18 11:31:46 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 F028116A4CE for ; Wed, 18 May 2005 11:31:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.nexband.com (valinux.intop.net [206.156.254.23]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56D1D43D69 for ; Wed, 18 May 2005 11:31:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@usmstudent.com) Received: from laptop (208-149-64-30.adsl.nexband.com [208.149.64.30]) by smtp.nexband.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j4IBVj70032546 for ; Wed, 18 May 2005 06:31:45 -0500 From: backdoc To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 06:31:45 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <200505170924.41163.freebsd@usmstudent.com> <200505172346.43445.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> In-Reply-To: <200505172346.43445.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200505180631.45341.freebsd@usmstudent.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: Wed, 18 May 2005 11:31:47 -0000 Thank you. Darren On Tuesday 17 May 2005 05:46 pm, RW wrote: > 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. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"