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From: michael@okjunc.junction.net (Michael Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD
Date: 9 Dec 1995 08:49:25 GMT
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In article <4a5cfv$or@parody.tecc.co.uk>,
James Raynard <james@parody.tecc.co.uk> wrote:
>In article <4a5765$h5n@Mercury.mcs.com>, Leslie Mikesell <les@MCS.COM> wrote:
>>
>>Speaking of file systems, are there any plans for a file system that
>>Linux, freebsd and Windows NT can all read so you could build
>>a dual-boot machine that could always get to the same files?
>
>Well, they can already read MS-DOS partitions, but I imagine you meant a
>real file system 8-)
>
>Actually, as FreeBSD can now read ext2 partitions, all you need to do now
>is to persuade Microsoft to support it...

OS/2 can also now use the ext2fs


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