Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 20:43:30 -0400 From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org> To: dochawk@psu.edu, The Psychotic Viper <psyv@sec-it.net> Cc: Wijnand Wiersma <freebsd@4business.nl>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sharing between freebsd & linux Message-ID: <01100420433001.07512@i8k.babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <200110041516.f94FGlq17965@fac13.ds.psu.edu> References: <200110041516.f94FGlq17965@fac13.ds.psu.edu>
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On Thursday 04 October 2001 11:16, dochawk@psu.edu wrote: > A psychotic psaid, > > > On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Wijnand Wiersma wrote: > > > is it possible to use the same swap partition and /home partition in > > > both freebsd and linux? and if yes: how? what is the best way to > > > accomplish this? > > > > Yes, http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Linux+FreeBSD-3.html > > Be careful, though. I haven't tried to do it in a couple of years, > but I've had troubles both ways with sharing partitions between freebsd > & linux. > > FreeBSD randomly inserted garbage during file-writes to an ext2. This > was a couple of years ago, but I haven't had anyone tell me that it's > been fixed, and I've mentioned it a few times. > > I don't know whether UFS write support is marked experimental or not in > Linux > > Also, if you try to mount in the wring direction as the wrong file > system (I think it was linux attempting to mount a bsd slice as a linux > partition, which can happen after a change in partitions), you trash > the partition table. You can manually recreate it, but it's a pain. > > When I need to share files, I generally do it by copying them to a dos > partition, which both bsd and linux reliablly support. I used to share in both directions without any problems. I don't any more merely because I no longer have a Linux partition. > > hawk -- Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . bts@wnt.sas.com (work) Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) http://www.babbleon.org -------> Free Dmitry Sklyarov! (let him go home) <----------- http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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