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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uwm.edu!newsspool.doit.wisc.edu!koala.uwec.edu!daffy.anetsrvcs.uwrf.edu!cakerwood!not-for-mail From: bl03@uwrf.edu (BENJAMIN A LINDSTROM) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD Followup-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc Date: 8 Dec 1995 05:48:28 GMT Lines: 38 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4a8jjc$71n@daffy.anetsrvcs.uwrf.edu> References: <489kuu$rbo@pelican.cs.ucla.edu> <49o2n2$t4e@daffy.anetsrvcs.uwrf.edu> <49q9ol$7l@dyson.iquest.net> <49ssit$51@bell.maths.tcd.ie> <49teb7$ac@dyson.iquest.net> <49vk97$9es@hamilton.maths.tcd.ie> <mkl.818175063@dagobert.rob.cs.tu-bs.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: cakerwood.acc.uwrf.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950726BETA PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:29575 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:9967 comp.unix.advocacy:11855 comp.unix.misc:19907 Mario Klebsch (mkl@rob.cs.tu-bs.de) wrote: : tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy) writes: : >Eg how do I mount a floppy disk, or a CD-ROM? : >How do I access DOS partitions? : : How do I create/fsck/mount the root/usr partitions? : : The last time, I used Linux, it took a long time to figure out about : mke2fs (no newfs), mount -t ext2 and e2fsck. Sometimes it is called : e2, sometimes ext2. When I wanted to do a backup, I was missing : dump. And it had almost no man pages :-(. OK, it is more than one year : ago. : Umm...I've NEVER seen it as e2...I've always see it as ext2. I don't see what the problem is.=) I've also been runing Linux for over a year or so.=) I how ever came in after the ext and ext2 thing.=) : When I installed FreeBSD for a friend of mine, I had absolutly no : problems in using this machine in single user mode. newfs worked fine, : and mounting afterwards required no f*cky options. And I had man man : pages as well as dump:-). : : <FLAME>IMHO Linux looks like UNIX for a user, but for an admin, who : has to clean up after a catastrophy it has almost nothing in common : with UNIX.</FLAME> What catastrophy?? Your flame seems to have no base.=) I have Linux runing netatalk/samba for Mac/Win95 server...Unless I want to add new hardware to try and play around to tweek samba preformance (normally does not occur.=) my system runs ignored for DAYS on end!! Mind you I'm not in everyday....Some times I don't even go to work for 2 weeks and it's never had a problem (note:Part-time admin..and the programmer(s) never touch my machine.=) I've played on other UNIX systems.. non-BSD style...They are all DIFFERENT when it comes to file systems.=) Look at SysV.