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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux & BSD file systems: how to share?
Date: 14 Aug 1996 07:23:12 GMT
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alicorn@mindspring.com (Amelia A Lewis) wrote:

> 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).

FreeBSD 2.2-current (and all 2.2-SNAPs) has support for the ext2fs
file system.  This might perhaps be the easiest way for you.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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