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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!realtime.net!news.mindspring.com!talsever.mindspring.com!not-for-mail From: alicorn@mindspring.com (Amelia A Lewis) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Linux & BSD file systems: how to share? Date: 13 Aug 1996 21:33:20 -0400 Organization: The mystical world of Talsever! Lines: 33 Message-ID: <4urad1$u1@talsever.mindspring.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: user-168-121-169-129.dialup.mindspring.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:122654 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:25454 Hiyas, Several of us at work are about to install FreeBSD on our own computers. This is, for them, an opportunity to learn/play with a unix; for me a different unix to play with. They'll be dual-booting with MS OSs. That issue is fairly well covered. I'll be dual booting, I hope, both FreeBSD and Linux. What I'd like to do is share some of the file systems on the Linux partitions with FreeBSD. I've checked the relevant documentation, so far as I could, and didn't find a nice simple step-through (a HOWTO! FreeBSD folks scream in horror). 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? 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). 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. Thanks, Amy! -- Amy A. Lewis <> alicorn@nando.net <> alicorn@mindspring.com When you live between opposites, you cannot escape the s/he who will follow you, who must be either wrestled with or embraced. -- Minnie Bruce Pratt, "Drag Show," in _S/HE_