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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!enews.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!esiee.fr!jussieu.fr!nef.ens.fr!drakkar!espel From: espel@drakkar.ens.fr (Roger Espel Llima) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: FreeBSD 2.2-ALPHA ext2fs support Date: 21 Dec 1996 01:59:52 GMT Organization: Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris Lines: 39 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <59fgao$pq@nef.ens.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: drakkar.ens.fr Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32869 More on the saga of getting a FreeBSD and a Linux installation on the same disk to read each other's data .... I installed FreeBSD 2.2-ALPHA which has ext2fs support, and would like to get it to mount Linux's partitions. My slice/partition setup is: . DOS slice (primary) . FreeBSD slice, containing BSD-style partitions: . / . swap . /usr . extended slice, containing DOS-style logical partitions: . Linux swap . Linux / Under FreeBSD, I see the FreeBSD slice split into various partitions (with devices like wd0s1a to wd0s1h or so), but the Linux partitions apparently aren't there, there's just the device for the extended slice itself... so I can't even attempt to mount them. Do I have to recompile my kernel explicitly enabling ext2fs support? (I'm running the GENERIC kernel). And with that partition setup, will FreeBSD be able to find the Linux partition inside the extended slice, and what will the device name be? I know it's lame to ask this, but can you cc: any replies to me? I do read this newsgroup, but I'll be off the net for a couple weeks (you know, xmas ....). Thanks in advance. -Roger -- e-mail: roger.espel.llima@ens.fr WWW page & PGP key: http://www.eleves.ens.fr:8080/home/espel/index.html