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Date:      Thu, 26 Aug 2010 16:52:54 -0700
From:      Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Questions about FreeBSD and Linux on the same disk
Message-ID:  <4C76FE56.10306@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <4C76F210.5020207@feral.com>
References:  <4C76D981.7080602@FreeBSD.org> <4C76F210.5020207@feral.com>

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On 8/26/2010 4:00 PM, Matthew Jacob wrote:
> 
> I share systems on disks quite a lot. But my typical usage is have Linux
> be the primary system and use grub to chainboot the FreeBSD partitions.
> If I absolutely must have a shared filesystem between the two, MS-DOS is
> the safest choice.

Ok, that's doable since I'll have a large FAT32 disk that I will be
using for shared data anyway, and on my previous dual-boot (win/freebsd)
I was using symlinks in the freebsd $HOME to the fat32 drive without
problems, so thanks for this answer.

Meanwhile, I just posted the 2nd of my questions to -hackers about
finding a boot manager that can handle booting linux from a logical
volume (which grub can do) and multiple freebsds. From what you wrote
above it sounds like you have the "multiple freebsd" problem licked,
perhaps you could take a look at my post on -hackers and help me out
there too?  :-/


Pressing my luck,

Doug



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