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From: Andi Kleen <andi@frob.mlm.extern.lrz-muenchen.de>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Can Linux and *BSD see eachother?
Date: 27 Apr 1996 23:42:39 +0200
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rraffer1@osf1.gmu.edu (Ryan M Rafferty) writes:

> 
> I am trying to transfer a large heap of data (>30 MB) from my linux
> partition to a BSD partition.  Can Linux mount BSD-style partitions?
> On the other hand, can BSD handle the ext2 filesystem?

The latest linux development kernel (1.3.96) has read-only support
for UFS and BSD-style disk labels. FreeBSD-current has ext2fs support. 

-Andi