Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1998 11:44:39 -0500 From: "Richard E. Hawkins Esq." <hawk@eyry.econ.iastate.edu> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: extended partitions, dos & ext2fs Message-ID: <m0zEyyV-0003EYC@eyry.iastate.edu>
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I'm trying to figure out a usable way to set up my harddisk. At the moment, at least until I have thigns figured out, the system still needs to run linux most of the time. What I want to do in the interim is to share /home and /usr/src between FreeBSD &linux. As linux can't write to ufs, this means that ome has to be a an ext2fs partition. from reading the bsd/linux Howto, It seems that bsd can only recognize primary ext2 partitions, and not extended partitions. This makes minimal sense to me, as the installation documents suggest that bsd *can* use extended dos partitions. So, somehow, I need to figure a way to pack the five partitions I need into the four allowed primary partitions. I need: 1) somewhere in the first 1023 to stuff kernels for linux & bsd. 2) a freebsd partition 3) an extended partition, where much of linux can live 4) the shared partition 5) a dos partition (need to check kids games under dosemu & wine :) I can see possible ways to solve these. If bsd can read the dos extemded partition, it goes in the same extended partition as the linux stuff. Or if bsd can read/write logical ext2fs partitions, there's no problems. But each of these seems to violate one or another of the constraints. Is there a civilized way out of this? thanks rick -- These opinions will not be those of ISU until it pays my retainer. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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