Date: 22 Nov 2003 10:24:23 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: sad@mailaps.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FBSD 5.1 and 4.8 sharing the same /home (and /var) possible? Message-ID: <444qwwe89k.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <20031122103852.E3319@tiscali.de> References: <20031122103852.E3319@tiscali.de>
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"Stefan A. Deutscher" <sa.deutscher@tiscali.de> writes: > (a) Is it OK to have the slices to be shared on ufs2, or will 4.8R > wreck havoc when accessing those (or, better: just not be able to > see them) 4.x won't understand UFS2. > (b) If ufs2 is not OK for use on both systems, are there any things to > consider when making them ufs1? I suppose I would have to backup, > newfs -O1, and restore the /var slice on da1, or is it advisable to > just make /var/mail a symlink to some separate ufs1 /mail slice? You need UFS1 to share it between FreeBSD versions, but whether it's worth re-creating the partition for that is up to you. > (c) Will the background file system checks introduced with 5.x still > work on these ufs1 slices? They should.
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