From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 24 20:07:22 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 27E4F6EE for ; Tue, 24 Jun 2014 20:07:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nm1-vm8.access.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com (nm1-vm8.access.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com [216.109.114.79]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AE4AE2777 for ; Tue, 24 Jun 2014 20:07:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [66.196.81.155] by nm1.access.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 24 Jun 2014 20:05:04 -0000 Received: from [98.138.226.244] by tm1.access.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 24 Jun 2014 20:05:04 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp115.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 24 Jun 2014 20:05:04 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=bellsouth.net; s=s1024; t=1403640304; bh=/XvuqlW8acd2PDfRnUEleNQlInpLO3XCjdghWW9w9u8=; h=X-Yahoo-Newman-Id:Message-ID:Date:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-SMTP:X-Rocket-Received:From:To:Subject; b=pfnKNt5Fkw06StJbYpvL6exM5z3bA1F144SuCeMK98hN0OYeSC3flYLzB8PHhrN98Rym8bGtKXlcpswGMOzHhz3O2388flV9gHmfhKH3Migk20MIrit5U5X6lYP8MeD0GJBDKOl0YaBU6Z+O9+OvTNjk7wNBNPz6LIx0pHCFeKg= X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 265745.24475.bm@smtp115.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com Message-ID: <265745.24475.bm@smtp115.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 20:05:04 +0000 (UTC) X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: LF_efyoVM1m.fgjG8.4CyI9bDzTjCOlUyjCPZo0sJ3ck0Gb oZW0uIkb7J8N1yoeWIP9LR02X1.s7Sr2hHTFnPFYtPBJuSy7UW3DFJFTGvmE YZryk57.Kmr_jDLiKRfdR4ltAkk8TU7WwdY4V8hePePknTwUQrW32V5katgs z9IWdEDcP9nYxZlvbjJE0DsO8zxE9WVO9UEH8MjxVSapHTnGoaRM2j9RnZVd kcu7q2R1nYul2hPufeHjbzFmQwbIyNmK5dtdnxmumuFE8qHFQfRIRnnYz7.N xVOFLoMTPu8a9nL8S4Oo_fSU7JFlbs_CWXwCj0cbN_b_ixSsEaQCc_fLB.e4 3Naf5H8NiCpu50mkqJU76as.Ak5S5.HLL8CLy5cuYDWEhwAI62CMyD0g8gJ4 3um7bSAfJqNAct8kucxmONOwOSxikhIsSV9kyWCAUbgrNqRx_fwIBVaz_gsr iCLXa57G9RNIZ4pS7dfGh.n6aYu1LceiBX29c7JXLmoHSMoVZDrgrHFFYy.v Jmuo88eQwz6tNSxNyuK5rI_.zbWqczOAW01n.neJ2auClkvRnZxJecJ8m X-Yahoo-SMTP: Kz_aW1.swBBYof3zAD7.RWzXz9ZAQVDMml1VADsbgPT4Kq79LC0- X-Rocket-Received: from localhost (mueller6724@96.28.178.143 with plain [98.138.31.74]) by smtp115.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with SMTP; 24 Jun 2014 20:05:04 +0000 UTC From: "Thomas Mueller" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Mount Linux ext2fs partition on /home? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 20:07:22 -0000 Is there anything wrong in using a Linux ext2fs or ext3fs partition for /home? Reason is to have read-write ability of FreeBSD /home partition from Linux, and from what I am told, also Haiku, so I can share FreeBSD mail directories with Linux and Haiku, and not be so slowed down when FreeBSD wi-fi stops working. FreeBSD wi-fi is a crapshoot on starting up, and another crapshoot how long it will stay up. I feel like Cinderella, except she knew her coach would turn back to a pumpkin at exactly midnight, while I have no idea, no warning, when the virtual midnight will come. Motherboard is MSI Z77 MPOWER. (Free, Open and DragonFly)BSD recognize Realtek (re) Ethernet but fail to connect. Only open-source OSes that work with this Ethernet, so far as I have seen, are NetBSD, Linux and Haiku. With NetBSD, some other things don't work; now startx won't start, can't find display. Too much of a crapshoot, and I don't want to mess with preconfigured device nodes any more, such as Linux and FreeBSD had many years ago, and NetBSD and OpenBSD still have. Tom