From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 14 7:10:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (fac13.ds.psu.edu [146.186.61.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB84837B424 for ; Mon, 14 May 2001 07:10:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fac13.ds.psu.edu (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f4EEAHP02739; Mon, 14 May 2001 10:10:17 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Message-Id: <200105141410.f4EEAHP02739@fac13.ds.psu.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: "Victor R. Cardona" Cc: krisno pryosusilo , "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: FreeBSD, Linux & Msdos file sharing? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 14 May 2001 00:42:45 CDT." <20010514004245.A60864@marx.marvic.chum> From: dochawk@psu.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 10:10:17 -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At the moment, the best bet for sharing between linux & freebsd seems to be a FAT file system. Add windows/dos into the mix, and I"d stick with fat for certain. I have yet to have anyone tell me that a couple of old problems with linux and *bsd using one another's filee systems have been solved. At about version 3.2, I tried to use my linux partitions with freebsd, and there would be occasional insertions of random data into the file systems. From the other direction, linux kills the parititon information when you slip and try to mount a bsd slice as ext2. At the moment, I'm having a problem with linux being unable ot write to a bsd partition as a user (I think root can write). MOunt shows my bsd drives mounted rw, but any attempt to write yields a "RO file system" error. hawk -- 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