Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 12:14:31 +0700 From: Olivier Nicole <olivier.nicole@cs.ait.ac.th> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Linux shared installation Message-ID: <CA%2Bg%2BBviS0B1%2B%2BaYXbxH51w2d9CPWnwuP54BNkrt_4X4YK-pWsg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20140121060405.396586d4.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20140121060405.396586d4.freebsd@edvax.de>
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Hi, > Swap: Can the two Linusi share the same swap partition? And I do something of the sort on machines in my teaching lab. I have installed one Ubuntu on one partition, and I have another empty partition where students can install their own Ubuntu (for class project) and they both use one same (extended) partition. I see no reason why FreeBSD could not use it too, swap partition is supposed to be empty when the system boots, so any data/formatting done by another OS will be over written. One a side note, should you have 35GB of /home in FreeBSD partition of instead increase the size of your common space? Bests, Olivier > furthoermore, could FreeBSD also use that one? Note that the > different systems are not running at the same time, so it would > be nonsense to waste disk space for three "dedicated" swap > partitions when one is sufficient. > > Shared data partition: I'm not searching for blazing performance, > so I do not require the most recent ext10fs or RiceFat here. > The goal should be that this partition can be adressed from all > the operating systems. It doesn't have to be /home, instead it > will be mounted separately, but rw. Regarding FreeBSD, it would > nice to not require fuse here (base OS tools preferred). > > My initial partitioning and sizing idea: > > Partition OS, subpart. Size Device (slice, partition) > -------------- -------------- ------ --------------------------- > > Prim. #1 FreeBSD 55 GB /dev/ada0s1{a,d,e,f,g} > a / 1 GB > d /tmp 2 GB > e /var 2 GB > f /usr 15 GB > g /home 35 GB > > Prim. #2 swap 5 GB /dev/ada0s2(b?), /dev/sda2 > > Prim. #3 common data 10 GB /dev/adas3, /dev/sda3 > > Extend. #1 > log. dr. #1 Kali Linux 15 GB /dev/sda5 > log. dr. #2 Mageia Linux 15 GB /dev/sda6 > > Would something like this work, or is there a better approach? > > > -- > Polytropon > Magdeburg, Germany > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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