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Date:      Thu, 16 Dec 1999 14:33:53 -0600
From:      hawk@hawkins.cba.uni.edu
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Mounting FreeBSD partition in Linux 
Message-ID:  <m11yhb5-0010ebC@hawkins.cba.uni.edu>
In-Reply-To: Message from Mark Hendriks <markh@lon.imag.net>  of "Wed, 15 Dec 1999 18:06:43 EST." <99121518213200.00276@mark.imag.net> 

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Be *very* careful when doing this, in either direction.

If linux tries to mount a bsd partition as ext2fs (which can happen by 
recompiling the linux kernel and changing the way it counts partitions 
within the bsd partition), it will trash the bsd partition table.  *if* 
you know where your slices were, you can reset them with the 
installation program (and I assume fdisk) and have them back.

In the other direction (bsd reading ext2), I don't know what the 
current status is, but 3.1 would randomly write garbage into files at 
times.  

rick

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Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq.   
                                               hawk@hawkins.cba.uni.edu
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