From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 24 09:57:24 2004 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 497C916A4CE for ; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 09:57:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc12.comcast.net (rwcrmhc12.comcast.net [216.148.227.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08C5D43D3F for ; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 09:57:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from underway@comcast.net) Received: from localhost.localdomain (c-24-17-47-224.client.comcast.net[24.17.47.224]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc12) with ESMTP id <2004032417572101400k1a4me>; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 17:57:22 +0000 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) i2OHxH61018071; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 09:59:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from underway@comcast.net) Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i2OHxBjf018070; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 09:59:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from underway@comcast.net) To: vd@datamax.bg References: <20040323080801.GA18453@sinanica.lg2a.datamax> <20040324061215.GA22288@sinanica.lg2a.datamax> From: underway@comcast.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 09:59:11 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20040324061215.GA22288@sinanica.lg2a.datamax> (Vasil Dimov's message of "Wed, 24 Mar 2004 08:12:15 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) XEmacs/21.4 (Reasonable Discussion, berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dd 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, 24 Mar 2004 17:57:24 -0000 Vasil Dimov writes: > Oh, yes, ofcourse I love `dd' but Ron was asking about *filesystem* You didn't read his message as closely as you should have. He said: I have set up a primary partition with ext2 filesystem to act as a single data partition accessable from all OSs. Notice the "to act as a single data partition" part. I thought it reasonable to tell him alternative ways to implement a shared data partition, since I had little hope that he would find a good, reliable file system, including FAT32. If I'm wrong, great, but I'd suggest that people test their little-used filesystem code with diffs and checksums and etc., before relying on it. I'm sorry that I mis-addressed my last message to you; I quoted only the OP ("any thoughts?") and my thoughts did not include any intent to disparage your knowledge of "dd", etc.