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Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 10:36:31 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: Leif Neland <leifn@internet.dk>
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Subject: Re: ext2fs
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On Sun, 10 May 1998, Leif Neland wrote:

> If I have to run Linux at home while I'm persuading the boss to change;
> can FreeBSD use ext2fs like Linux, to share a partition? Or does slices,
> partitions etc confuse the two os's?

Technically, FreeBSD can mount ext2fs. You have to have a UFS partition to
boot from however.  I wouldn't use an ext2fs as your normal FS, only for
bringing data over.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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