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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!caen!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!gatech!udel!news.sprintlink.net!sashimi.wwa.com!not-for-mail From: blackbob@wwa.com (Terence S. Murphy) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: BSD and Linux Coexisting Date: 3 Nov 1994 11:22:41 -0600 Organization: WorldWide Access - Chicago Area Internet Services 312-282-8605 708-367-1871 Lines: 21 Message-ID: <39b691$cok@sashimi.wwa.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sashimi.wwa.com Hi! I am running both Linux and NetBSD. I am interested in hearing from people who are running both Linux and a BSD system. My primary interest is sharing a filesystem. Can it be done? My home directory is about 100 megabytes in size, and I don't have the space to hold two copies of it on my disks. Is there any filesystem which both BSD and Linux read? If so, I could just put this on a partition and mount it under both systems. I could also save space, for example, with the fonts if I am running X on both systems. (MS-DOS won't cut it with the 8.3 filenames, and tar is unacceptable because I just want to be able to mount the filesystem.) I think isofs is availble on both systems, this may sound stupid, but a) can I mkisofs a harddrive partition and b) can I write to it after it's made? I know there's lots of people running both systems so I assume someone has a solution. (I'm also interested in general tips about coexisting the two.) Are there any plans to port, for example, ext2fs to BSD? A solution like this would certainly be the easiest. I'd really like to hear from those running both, though. -- Terry Murphy | UIUC Frosh/CS Major | "The whole world has been made again" - Marillion | There ought to be an alt.fan.linus-torvalds! | "The S.A.T is not geared for the lower class so why waste time even trying to pass?"-Gang Starr "I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude"-H.D.Thoreau