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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!tyger.inna.net!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux & BSD file systems: how to share? Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 02:21:57 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 33 Message-ID: <32119AB5.2781E494@FreeBSD.org> References: <4urad1$u1@talsever.mindspring.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b7 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: Amelia A Lewis <alicorn@mindspring.com> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:122551 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:25432 Amelia A Lewis wrote: > > Hiyas, > > Several of us at work are about to install FreeBSD on our own computers. > This is, for them, an opportunity to learn/play with a unix; for me a > different unix to play with. They'll be dual-booting with MS OSs. That > issue is fairly well covered. > > I'll be dual booting, I hope, both FreeBSD and Linux. What I'd like to do > is share some of the file systems on the Linux partitions with FreeBSD. > I've checked the relevant documentation, so far as I could, and didn't find > a nice simple step-through (a HOWTO! FreeBSD folks scream in horror). > a wise design), and the spool areas (/var). All three are ext2fs. I know > that FreeBSD supports it, but what will I need to do to enable this support? FreeBSD supports it only in 2.2-current. If you're not afraid of loading a snapshot version of FreeBSD, you can get the lastest 2.2-960801-SNAP from ftp.freebsd.org. Then it's a simple matter of compiling EXT2FS support into your kernel with `options EXT2FS' and mounting the Linux partitions with mount -t ext2fs /dev/<someplace> /<mountpoint>. The values for <someplace> will be determined by which partition(s) your Linux stuff lives on. Read up on FreeBSD's "slice" model during the installation for more information on this - it's documented there. -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project