sharing ext3 partition

[backdoc]

Thank you.  

Darren

On Tuesday 17 May 2005 05:46 pm, RW wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 May 2005 15:24, backdoc wrote:
> > 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?
>
> No, you may be able to resize it though. You are allowed 4 primary
> partions, one of which may be an extended partition.  FreeBSD install on a
> single primary partion and places all it's native partions inside it
> without it counting as the one 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?
>
> No, but ext3 is compatible with ext2 provided that fsck understands ext3
> journals, which I believe is the case with FreeBSD.
>
> > Any drawbacks to sharing an ext3
> > partition between Gentoo and FreeBSD?
>
> Since you'll be using it as ext2 (probably with synchronous writes) writing
> may be slow under FreeBSD.
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