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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!swrinde!howland.erols.net!torn!ccshst05.uoguelph.ca!jtiefenb From: jtiefenb@uoguelph.ca (Josh Tiefenbach) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux & BSD file systems: how to share? Date: 14 Aug 1996 15:21:24 GMT Organization: Death to HP-UX! Lines: 47 Message-ID: <4usqtk$nme@ccshst05.uoguelph.ca> References: <4urad1$u1@talsever.mindspring.com> Reply-To: josh@scis.org NNTP-Posting-Host: ccshst01.uoguelph.ca X-Newsreader: slrn (0.8.8.3 (BETA) UNIX) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:122865 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:25491 Amelia A Lewis <alicorn@mindspring.com> burbled: > >There are three partitions I would specifically like to mount: user space >(/home), generally-available space (/pub, and don't ask, it probably wasn't >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? Only FreeBSD-current (ie 2.2) supports ext2fs support (and the Linux emulation if im not mistaken). To enable it you would have to (pause to check files) recompile the FreeBSD kernel with the EXT2FS and COMPAT_LINUX options defined. The you would (presumably - never got around to testing this) do a mount -t ext2 /dev/blah /mount-point from FreeBSD. >Simply place appropriate entries in /etc/fstab? Or load the Linux module? >(Note that this will be an installation from CD, so presumably some variant >of -stable, not the snapshots). Again, to the extent of my knowledge, only FreeBSD-current has ext2 or linux support. If you are installing from a CD, then my suggestion is to get a working system, sup the -current sources, and then rebuild the world. >I'd prefer not to have to make temporary partitions which I'd later replace >with the existing user spaces. If anyone has some information, or pointers >to information on installing FreeBSD to make use of some existing >partitions, I'd appreciate hearing about it. > Try grepping the FreeBSD mailing-list archives at www.freebsd.org and/or submitting questions to those same mailing lists -- freebsd-questions and freebsd-current come to mind as particularily relevant ones. Also, there is rumored to be support for mounting BSD UFS partitions from Linux. Havent got it to work myself. josh -- "Perl is the language of choice for net abuse" -- Larry Wall "No, I'm not going to explain it. If you can't figure it out, you didnt want to know anyways..." -- Larry Wall