On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:30:43 -0400, Jerry McAllister <jerr...@msu.edu> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 11:45:07AM -0700, Michael David Crawford wrote: > FreeBSD is not happy with MS 'extended partitions'. But, I don't really > see your problem. You are not using Microsloth for anything.
That's why I'm not sure why FAT has been mentioned. As far as I understood, the disk should have three operating systems (Linux, FreeBSD 7, FreeBSD 8) and a partition where all these systems can have a shared mount point for /home. So my idea would be... no, my further questions would be: 1. Can FreeBSD mount -o rw a file system that is usable on Linux, maybe ext2? If yes, use this file system type for the partition that is /home then. 2. Can Linux mount -o rw a file system that is usable on FreeBSD, maybe UFS? If yes, use this file system type for the partition that is /home then. Because the /home partition is not intended to be booted from, it should be possible to add it. > Create your Lunix slice first, then one for FreeBSD 7.2 and finally one > for FreeBSD 8.0. You still logically have one left for something but > it doesn't seem to be needed and neither does a 'logical partition'. Hasn't the fact that Linux needs two primary partitions (one for itself, one for its boot loader) mentioned? > FreeBSD might be able to mount the CENTOS slice stuff if you use > the right type of mount. I don't know about mounting Lunix from FreeBSD. > But, you can't do it the other way (eg mount a FreeBSD type filesystem > from Lunix - though maybe, I have never tried it) That would be the idea. > From FreeBSD you can mount other types of filesystems such as MS > by using the correct mount types. For example, if you want to mount > an MS FAT or FAT32, you use an 'msdosfs' type in your fstab file or > mount_msdosfs(8) utility to do the mount. Do some studying to see > if you can mount any Lunxi type filesystem from FreeBSD. Exactly. Or, if not, maybe it works vice-versa: mounting a FreeBSD partition (within a slice, a "primary partition") from within this Linux. -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
