From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 23 08:33:03 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 536B93DE for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2014 08:33:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-we0-x232.google.com (mail-we0-x232.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c03::232]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DD75D123B for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2014 08:33:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-we0-f178.google.com with SMTP id t60so850956wes.9 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2014 00:33:01 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=Lx9yGXPwbVJqisDLvowpNvr6XxHSgIQMvtFyTqdO9WM=; b=wTKopTpCEu6OUB8Iqi/fE6j3aCjsTVP+iSFC/cbQHcKLZyby10Rlofw1cG9rnsggWA ACirsVafB89DJPAWVN1AHEgpZtt9ZimeQQEXCf/8NtuyDaV9fhSmGWvRgpNlJ2TxMrSc H1AGEm6JqRSBgfAeKgU0OACBmP+1jUK8sH0jwW4U3U5WLuXT756eQNL1xo4I/DUvDF0l 2IsKQKkOpoYJQl1qBm47RcIkSJpfPCqnMK0OL+/UfnxFvntArtSncTe7XAZ/qAHkjnrf t4QeyUzGYEGfWG4pKypaUAQHBrBrmfq+mqN7dOjoPLUsPMeZdg0qV92Y7Vqo/9LJFkdi 13IQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.194.109.68 with SMTP id hq4mr5715964wjb.12.1390465981285; Thu, 23 Jan 2014 00:33:01 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.227.154.201 with HTTP; Thu, 23 Jan 2014 00:33:01 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <20140121172736.A25136@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <20140121193035.K25136@sola.nimnet.asn.au> Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 15:33:01 +0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Linux shared installation From: Olivier Nicole To: Olivier Nicole Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: Polytropon , Ian Smith , "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 08:33:03 -0000 Hi, I tried FreeBSD 8.4 and Ubuntu 12.0.4. They can share the swap partiction without needing any trick on Ubuntu part. Bests, Olivier On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 4:17 PM, Olivier Nicole wrote: > Ian, > >> The main issue there is that from FreeBSD you'd be working with a (say) >> ext2/3 partition as /home, when you really have to be sure that FreeBSD >> handles R/W flawlessly with it rather than with UFS2+SU(+J), especially >> regarding crash recovery. Perhaps with FUSE that might be solid enough, >> but personally I tend to trust native formats and tools better, whether >> from the FreeBSD or Linux side. > > I think that Linux (Ubuntu) supports UFS. As I have no machine with > oth system, I never pushed further, but I think I remember seeing an > option to format a partition using UFS in Ubuntu install. > > Let me give it a trty. > > Olivier > >> >> > > > Extend. #1 >> > > > log. dr. #1 Kali Linux 15 GB /dev/sda5 >> > > > log. dr. #2 Mageia Linux 15 GB /dev/sda6 >> > > >> > > From FreeBSD accessing my old OS/2 partitions I seem to recall that >> > > /dev/ada0s5 is the ext drive itself, and within would be ada0s6 and s7, >> > > though the above nomenclature would be right from Linux' POV. >> > >> > In Linux too (Ubuntu) the Extended #1 is partition #4 and being >> > splited into logical partition #5 and #6. Basically what you write >> > Ian, but you missed the #4: /dev/ada0s4 is the ext drive itself, and >> > within would be ada0s5 and s6... >> >> I'm still not sure about that from FreeBSD's perspective. Remembering >> back to '98-'99 when I salvaged years of OS/2 work, especially code, and >> those disks only had 3 primary partitions ('C:', OS/2 Boot Manager, then >> drives D: through I: or J: on the extended partition, but with no s4 I >> still had to start at s5, with s6 the first mountable partition (after >> having built the HPFS code which is still in the tree, at 9.1 anyway). >> >> However I may be misremembering (non-ECC memory :) so perhaps Polytropon >> could show us an 'ls /dev/ada0*' when it's done? >> >> cheers, Ian