From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 4 17:43:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail5.nc.rr.com (fe5.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CDFB37B40B for ; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 17:43:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from i8k.babbleon.org ([66.57.85.154]) by mail5.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Thu, 4 Oct 2001 20:43:31 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian T.Schellenberger To: dochawk@psu.edu, The Psychotic Viper Subject: Re: sharing between freebsd & linux Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 20:43:30 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Cc: Wijnand Wiersma , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200110041516.f94FGlq17965@fac13.ds.psu.edu> In-Reply-To: <200110041516.f94FGlq17965@fac13.ds.psu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01100420433001.07512@i8k.babbleon.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 On Thursday 04 October 2001 11:16, dochawk@psu.edu wrote: > 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. I used to share in both directions without any problems. I don't any more merely because I no longer have a Linux partition. > > hawk -- Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . bts@wnt.sas.com (work) Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) http://www.babbleon.org -------> Free Dmitry Sklyarov! (let him go home) <----------- http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message