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Date:      Wed, 12 Apr 2000 07:36:38 -0400 (EDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Michael Kalokerinos <kalokerm@globec.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   RE: Win95, Linux & FreeBSD Conncetivity
Message-ID:  <200004121136.HAA32353@server.baldwin.cx>
In-Reply-To: <000801bfa46f$ff4facc0$b58919cb@globec.com.au>

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On 12-Apr-00 Michael Kalokerinos wrote:
> I have a Pentium 166 running on 48MB RAM with 2 hard drives. My "C" drive is devoted exclusively to
> Win95/DOS which I can read from the linux partition on my second hard drive. This second hard drive
> is split logically into the linux Redhat partition (1.4 Gb) just mentioned and the remainder of the
> hard drive is devoted to FreeBSD (about 1.6 GB).
> 
> I am able to read the FAT32 tables from within Linux of my Win95 as with FreeBSD. However I am unable
> to read Linux from FreeBSD or vice versa. Please advise how I should edit my /etc/fstab files in
> Linux and or FreeBSD or whatever I could do to solve this.

FreeBSD can read Linux file systems, you just need to mount them as
ext2fs file systems.  IOW, instead of

% mount /dev/ad0s2 /mnt

use

% mount -t ext2fs /dev/ad0s2 /mnt

> Thank you
> 
> Michael Kalokerinos
> 
> kalokerm@globec.com.au

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