So to get back to a variant of my original question:

If I'm running a dual-boot Linux BSD system, it looks like Linux can't
read the BSD FFS file system. {At least my linux system mount command
doesn't talk about ffs; it does mention ufs.}

        --Bob Solovay



On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Jacob Meuser wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 11:20:03PM -0800, Cory Petkovsek wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 08:07:01PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > I believe all the BSDs use the Fast File System* (ffs). But that
> > > shouldn't be a problem for want you want to do - at least not from
> > > the BSD side of things. You just need to specify what Type of file
> > > system /home is in your /etc/fstab file. I'd be very surprised if
> > > Linux couldn't mount a FFS partition. see mount(8) and mount_ext2fs(8)
> > > in your version of BSD.
> >
> > FFS is the old name for UFS (the Unix File System), which is the current
> > standard for at least freebsd and solaris.
>
> Um, no.
>
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Filesystems-HOWTO-9.html#ufs
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