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Date:      Thu, 04 Oct 2001 11:16:47 -0400
From:      dochawk@psu.edu
To:        The Psychotic Viper <psyv@sec-it.net>
Cc:        Wijnand Wiersma <freebsd@4business.nl>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sharing between freebsd & linux 
Message-ID:  <200110041516.f94FGlq17965@fac13.ds.psu.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 29 Sep 2001 21:41:26 %2B0200." <20010929214105.A17717-100000@lucifer.fuzion.ath.cx> 

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A psychotic psaid,

> On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Wijnand Wiersma wrote:

> > is it possible to use the same swap partition and /home partition in
> > both freebsd and linux? and if yes: how? what is the best way to
> > accomplish this?

> Yes, http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Linux+FreeBSD-3.html

Be careful, though.  I haven't tried to do it in a couple of years,  
but I've had troubles both ways with sharing partitions between freebsd 
& linux.  

FreeBSD randomly inserted garbage during file-writes to an ext2.  This 
was a couple of years ago, but I haven't had anyone tell me that it's 
been fixed, and I've mentioned it a few times.

I don't know whether UFS write support is marked experimental or not in 
Linux

Also, if you try to mount in the wring direction as the wrong file 
system (I think it was linux attempting to mount a bsd slice as a linux 
partition, which can happen after a change in partitions), you trash 
the partition table.  You can manually recreate it, but it's a pain.

When I need to share files, I generally do it by copying them to a dos 
partition, which both bsd and linux reliablly support.

hawk

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