From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 27 20:17:57 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F9A1106564A for ; Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:17:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mx01.qsc.de (mx01.qsc.de [213.148.129.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F263A8FC15 for ; Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:17:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from r55.edvax.de (port-92-196-27-202.dynamic.qsc.de [92.196.27.202]) by mx01.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBB163D1AF; Mon, 27 Apr 2009 22:17:53 +0200 (CEST) Received: from r55.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r55.edvax.de (8.14.2/8.14.2) with SMTP id n3RKHlEV001570; Mon, 27 Apr 2009 22:17:48 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 22:17:47 +0200 From: Polytropon To: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <20090427221747.a2494e6c.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20090427143043.GE24963@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <49F4ABB3.6000808@prgmr.com> <20090427143043.GE24963@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.7 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Michael David Crawford Subject: Re: Partitioning for multiple systems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Polytropon List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:17:57 -0000 On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:30:43 -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 11:45:07AM -0700, Michael David Crawford wrote: > FreeBSD is not happy with MS 'extended partitions'. But, I don't really > see your problem. You are not using Microsloth for anything. That's why I'm not sure why FAT has been mentioned. As far as I understood, the disk should have three operating systems (Linux, FreeBSD 7, FreeBSD 8) and a partition where all these systems can have a shared mount point for /home. So my idea would be... no, my further questions would be: 1. Can FreeBSD mount -o rw a file system that is usable on Linux, maybe ext2? If yes, use this file system type for the partition that is /home then. 2. Can Linux mount -o rw a file system that is usable on FreeBSD, maybe UFS? If yes, use this file system type for the partition that is /home then. Because the /home partition is not intended to be booted from, it should be possible to add it. > Create your Lunix slice first, then one for FreeBSD 7.2 and finally one > for FreeBSD 8.0. You still logically have one left for something but > it doesn't seem to be needed and neither does a 'logical partition'. Hasn't the fact that Linux needs two primary partitions (one for itself, one for its boot loader) mentioned? > FreeBSD might be able to mount the CENTOS slice stuff if you use > the right type of mount. I don't know about mounting Lunix from FreeBSD. > But, you can't do it the other way (eg mount a FreeBSD type filesystem > from Lunix - though maybe, I have never tried it) That would be the idea. > From FreeBSD you can mount other types of filesystems such as MS > by using the correct mount types. For example, if you want to mount > an MS FAT or FAT32, you use an 'msdosfs' type in your fstab file or > mount_msdosfs(8) utility to do the mount. Do some studying to see > if you can mount any Lunxi type filesystem from FreeBSD. Exactly. Or, if not, maybe it works vice-versa: mounting a FreeBSD partition (within a slice, a "primary partition") from within this Linux. -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...