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Date:      Wed, 7 Aug 2002 23:49:05 -0500
From:      Glenn Johnson <glennpj@charter.net>
To:        Rakesh Prajapati <rprajapa@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: common mount point between linux and freebsd
Message-ID:  <20020808044905.GA8782@gforce.johnson.home>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.4.44.0208072107000.14826-100000@sdf.lonestar.org>
References:  <Pine.NEB.4.44.0208072107000.14826-100000@sdf.lonestar.org>

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On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 09:14:08PM +0000, Rakesh Prajapati wrote:

> I want to install FreeBSD(4.6 Rel) and linux (redhat 7.3) on the same
> machine and I want to have a partition say /web which I should be able
> to mount with either Linux or FreeBSD.
>
> What type of partition for should I create eg. /ext2 or /ext3 etc for
> /web so that it can be accesible from either OS whichever I choose to
> boot from.

FreeBSD can mount both ext2 and ext3 filesystems.  The ext3 filesystem
is essentially ext2 + journaling but FreeBSD sees it as ext2.  You will
need to add

options EXT2FS

to your kernel config file, rebuild, and reboot with the new kernel.
Note that there is a warning in LINT about EXT2FS support.  I would
suggest reading it.  I mount a Linux ext3 filesystem read/write on one
of my systems and have never had a problem, but you may want to do some
testing.

-- 
Glenn Johnson
glennpj@charter.net

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