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#! rnews 1234 sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!dish.news.pipex.net!pipex!bt!sol.lssec.bt.co.uk!news From: bwheeler@lssec.bt.co.uk (Ben/Jammin Wheeler) Subject: NetBSD Filesystems Message-ID: <1995Jul26.123455.28242@lssec.bt.co.uk> Keywords: filesystem Sender: bwheeler@dino (Ben/Jammin Wheeler) Organization: TTL Communications Date: 26 Jul 95 13:34:55 GMT Lines: 15 I've read thru various readmes which don't tell me what I want to know, so as a last resort... ;) Here are my questions: Does NetBSD only have its own ``proprietary'' filesystem? Is this the same across all platforms? (ie, if I make a floppy with a NetBSD FS on it on a x86, will it be readable on a Sparc?) Is there any support for other filesystems, specifically MS-DOG FAT, Minix, Linux Ext2, Linux Xiafs? The reason for this is that I'd like to try NetBSD alongside Linux on my machine, but have them share the same partition and filesystem (but obviously putting NetBSD binaries and libs in a different place to Linux binaries and libs!) If NetBSD only supports its own little filesystem, presumably this becomes impossible.