From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 4 10:19:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from 2ainfo.it (ppp91.2ainfo.it [195.31.142.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EBEE37B403 for ; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 10:19:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 2ainfo.it (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by 2ainfo.it (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id f94HQ7904304; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:26:09 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from gunnut@2ainfo.it) Message-Id: <200110041726.f94HQ7904304@2ainfo.it> From: To: dochawk@psu.edu Cc: psyv@sec-it.net, freebsd@4business.nl, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sharing between freebsd & linux In-Reply-To: <200110041516.f94FGlq17965@fac13.ds.psu.edu> Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 19:26:03 +0057 (CEST) X-Mailer: XCmail 1.3 - with PGP support, PGP engine version 0.5 (FreeBSD) X-Mailerorigin: http://www.fsai.fh-trier.de/~schmitzj/Xclasses/XCmail/ MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 ---Reply to mail from dochawk@psu.edu about sharing between freebsd & linux > 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. I have 4.4-STABLE and Redhat 6.2 and they work well with the 2.2.x series of kernel I mounted linux partition in fbsd and vice versa without trouble.I do not share partitions like home though swap should be OK sincerely Filippo > > 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 > > ---End reply To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message