sharing ext3 partition
backdoc
freebsd at usmstudent.com
Tue May 17 07:24:48 PDT 2005
I have a laptop partitioned up into a mixture of Windows and Linux partitions.
I was thinking about wiping the Ubuntu partition and putting FreeBSD 5.4 in
its place. However, there are a couple of concerns that I have before doing
this.
1) Everything except for the NTFS partition is inside of an extended
partition.
If I delete the Ubuntu partition, will FreeBSD install in an extended
partition?
2) I use one Linux partition to keep all regular user documents that Ubuntu
and Gentoo share (eg. photos, OpenOffice documents and etc.)
Does FreeBSD fully support ext3 writing? Any drawbacks to sharing an ext3
partition between Gentoo and FreeBSD?
Below is a copy of my fdisk -l /dev/hda output from Linux.
Note that /dev/hda2 is the extended partition and /dev/hda8 is the Ubuntu
partition I'd like to exchange for FreeBSD. I thought about just changing
the type of /hda8 to FreeBSD and seeing if 5.4 RELEASE would recognize it and
use it. But, I hate to just destroy it only to find out that it wouldn't
work.
Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 116280 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 36577 18434556 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 36577 116280 40170501+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 36577 40641 2048256 b W95 FAT32
/dev/hda6 40641 41661 514048+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda7 41661 92470 25607578+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda8 92470 104375 6000246 83 Linux
/dev/hda9 104375 104437 31374 83 Linux
/dev/hda10 104438 116280 5968840+ 83 Linux
TIA,
backdoc
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