Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 22:22:57 +0100 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6727@bellsouth.net> Cc: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>, Zhihao Yuan <lichray@gmail.com>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux compatibility with more than one Linux installed? Message-ID: <20111207222257.000023be@unknown> References: <CAGsORuAcoKGaRKg7C6i9nrTWbXHUj4Qf1gT-qx_5%2BpUL3oV8YQ@mail.gmail.com> <20111206153259.501d81bb@gumby.homeunix.com> <8hs8n18830xu53rutk34votl.1323170350012@email.android.com>
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On Wed, 7 Dec 2011 11:56:49 +0000 (GMT) "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6727@bellsouth.net> wrote: > Too much to quote here without making a mess, and I want to get to > bed, but thanks for all the ideas. > > I noticed the advice with emulators/wine that running programs on an > actual MS-Windows partition can make a mess of said partition; wonder > if there would be such a hazard with Linux instead of MS-Windows. It depends. I can not comment upon the quality of the ext2fs part of FreeBSD, but the linuxulator itself will not destroy anything. Theoretically it can be the case that a sloppy programmed (linux-)tool may destroy some data if it wants to use something which does not work, but in this case I would say it is the fault of the tool to not check for errors... Or let's say it differently: if it destroys something, you should have played Lotto instead of doing whatever you did... ;-) Bye, Alexander. -- http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID = B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID = 72077137
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