Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 01:19:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Tani Hosokawa <unknown@riverstyx.net> To: William James Irwin <wji@ihug.co.nz> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, 11@ihug.co.nz Subject: Re: Partition maintenance Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9908200117530.12963-100000@avarice.riverstyx.net> In-Reply-To: <37BD1255.2891AA58@ihug.co.nz>
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Just my two cents... I completely trashed a UFS partition from Linux once. That was on a stock 2.0.35 kernel. I dunno what caused it, but I never tried it again. I've heard from other people that UFS support under Linux isn't too hot... On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, William James Irwin wrote: > Hi All > > I've recently run out of space on my freebsd slice. > The solution I've thought of is to create a new slice for > /usr/local (on e), I also have a seperate slice on another > disk drive that contains my /home directory and some swap. > So I need to copy /usr/local across, preserving all > symbolic links, permissions etc. > Would 'tar cf - /usr/local/* | tar xf - /mnt' work? > > This is of course assuming all new ports install in > /usr/local (I've noticed a few install things in /usr/X11R6) > I've also thought of creating a new filesystem on another > disk for /usr/ports. > > I have another more important question. I use both Linux > and Freebsd (dualbooted). I wish to have the same home > directorys on both. This means I either have to use > ext2fs or ufs filesystems for the home partition. > > I have mounted ext2fs from freebsd but I haven't had much > luck with mounting a ufs filesystem from linux. Apparantly > the FreeBSD slice is meant to look like an extended partition > to linux. However this doesn't happen. I suspect that it > has something to do with the mark number of the slice. According to > linux's fdisk 'a5' is the FreeBSD mark but my > freebsd slice is marked with 'b5'. > > So in summary, what are the merits of sharing a filesystem > between these two operating systems. Is ext2fs better > supported under freebsd than ufs is under linux? > > Thanks for your time, > > Regards > > -- > William James Irwin > wji@ihug.co.nz > wirw002@cs.auckland.ac.nz > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > --- tani hosokawa river styx internet To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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