From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 4 8:17:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (fac13.ds.psu.edu [146.186.61.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B5D237B406 for ; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 08:17:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (localhost.ds.psu.edu [127.0.0.1]) by fac13.ds.psu.edu (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f94FGlq17965; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 11:16:47 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Message-Id: <200110041516.f94FGlq17965@fac13.ds.psu.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: The Psychotic Viper Cc: Wijnand Wiersma , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sharing between freebsd & linux In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 29 Sep 2001 21:41:26 +0200." <20010929214105.A17717-100000@lucifer.fuzion.ath.cx> From: dochawk@psu.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 11:16:47 -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG A psychotic psaid, > On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Wijnand Wiersma wrote: > > is it possible to use the same swap partition and /home partition in > > both freebsd and linux? and if yes: how? what is the best way to > > accomplish this? > Yes, http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Linux+FreeBSD-3.html Be careful, though. I haven't tried to do it in a couple of years, but I've had troubles both ways with sharing partitions between freebsd & linux. FreeBSD randomly inserted garbage during file-writes to an ext2. This was a couple of years ago, but I haven't had anyone tell me that it's been fixed, and I've mentioned it a few times. I don't know whether UFS write support is marked experimental or not in Linux Also, if you try to mount in the wring direction as the wrong file system (I think it was linux attempting to mount a bsd slice as a linux partition, which can happen after a change in partitions), you trash the partition table. You can manually recreate it, but it's a pain. When I need to share files, I generally do it by copying them to a dos partition, which both bsd and linux reliablly support. hawk -- rm -rf /bin/laden Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. /"\ ASCII ribbon campaign dochawk@psu.edu Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 \ / against HTML mail These opinions will not be those of X and postings. Penn State until it pays my retainer. / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message