Shared Partition?
I currently dual boot Windows XP and FreeBSD 5.2.1. I have files that are common to both (MP3's and some documents). Is there a way to create a partition that can be read by both that would eliminate this double copy problem? I thought creating a separate partition woudl work but Windows XP allows only one visible primary partition and I don't know how to mount a logical partition with multiple sub-partitions. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Shared Partition?
I am pretty sure the only way to do this is to have a FAT32 partition. I have not done this on FreeBSD but while playing with Xandros Linux I was able to get read/write access using a FAT partition. On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 10:27:34 -0400, Tom Moyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I currently dual boot Windows XP and FreeBSD 5.2.1. I have files that are common to both (MP3's and some documents). Is there a way to create a partition that can be read by both that would eliminate this double copy problem? I thought creating a separate partition woudl work but Windows XP allows only one visible primary partition and I don't know how to mount a logical partition with multiple sub-partitions. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Shared Partition?
I am pretty sure the only way to do this is to have a FAT32 partition. I have not done this on FreeBSD but while playing with Xandros Linux I was able to get read/write access using a FAT partition. I also believe that you need a fat32 slice.It would be accessable by both systems. jerry On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 10:27:34 -0400, Tom Moyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I currently dual boot Windows XP and FreeBSD 5.2.1. I have files that are common to both (MP3's and some documents). Is there a way to create a partition that can be read by both that would eliminate this double copy problem? I thought creating a separate partition woudl work but Windows XP allows only one visible primary partition and I don't know how to mount a logical partition with multiple sub-partitions. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Shared Partition?
I currently dual boot Windos 98 and FreeBSD 5.2.1. The only thing i do is create first a primary dos and extend partition using a DOS FDISK and FOMAT and so, mount -t msdos /dev/ados1 /mnt/c mount -t msdos /dev/ad0s5 /mnt/d mount -t msdos /dev/ad0s6 /mnt/e and even mount /dev/ad0s7 Some time ago, when a tried to make that using fdisk and newfs_msdos nothing works only ad0s7. Hope that helps. I currently dual boot Windows XP and FreeBSD 5.2.1. I have files that are common to both (MP3's and some documents). Is there a way to create a partition that can be read by both that would eliminate this double copy problem? I thought creating a separate partition woudl work but Windows XP allows only one visible primary partition and I don't know how to mount a logical partition with multiple sub-partitions. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Shared Partition?
On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 10:19:01AM -0500, Curtis Almond wrote: I am pretty sure the only way to do this is to have a FAT32 partition. I have not done this on FreeBSD but while playing with Xandros Linux I was able to get read/write access using a FAT partition. FAT32 may be the only solution if you need read/write-access from both systems, but for stuff like mp3, it may suffice to mount your Windows NTFS-partition read-only. FreeBSD can do that with mount_ntfs(8). I have setup such a thing for someone. Read/write-access to a shared FAT32-partition, and read-only acces to a Win2k NTFS-partition. No problem whatsoever. GH ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Best filesysyem for FreeBSD Linux shared partition
Hello Everyone, I am multibooting FreeBSD with a few Linux distributions such as Mandrake, Gentoo, Slackware, Red Hat. (I'll reduce that list to a couple of favourites eventually). I have set up a primary partition with ext2 filesystem to act as a single data partition accessable from all OSs. That seemed to be fine until recently when I ran out of room on my FreeBSD /usr directory and moved my /usr/ports/distfiles directory to the shared ext2fs partition. At first there seemed to be no problems but when I tried to upgrade KDE and XFree86 using portupgrade the error messages began. XFree86 always encountered errors when checking the checksums of the source tarballs. It would say at first that the checksums were ok but then immediately after crash sying that there were crc errors. KDE was more serious. It would almost immediately crash with a Fatal Trap 12 error and reboot. After finding nothing on the on the forums I finally moved the distfiles to a new drive which I formatted with the FreeBSD ufs filesystem. VOILA!! No more problems. So it seems that FreeBSD support for ext2fs is at fault. So what is the best filesystem to use for a shared partition? For example, does FreeBSD provide better support for ext3fs or resierfs? Or does Linux provide better support for ufs? Any thoughts? Thanks in advance, Ron Yes: FreeBSD support for ext2fs is at fault also is the Linux support for UFS. I suggest using FAT32 if you do not care about 755 permissions and root:wheel owner on all files (/usr/ports/distfiles is a good example for this). You can also try sysutils/e2fsprogs and/or sysutils/linux-e2fsprogs from the ports. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best filesysyem for FreeBSD Linux shared partition
Any thoughts? SOMETIMES no file system is the best file system. E.g., by putting a raw file on a partition with dd, cat, or , maybe with the raw file being a .pax, .tgz, or other archive file. Creative use of dd options should permit multiple files per partition but I've only ever used a single (archive) file. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Best filesysyem for FreeBSD Linux shared partition
Hello Everyone, I am multibooting FreeBSD with a few Linux distributions such as Mandrake, Gentoo, Slackware, Red Hat. (I'll reduce that list to a couple of favourites eventually). I have set up a primary partition with ext2 filesystem to act as a single data partition accessable from all OSs. That seemed to be fine until recently when I ran out of room on my FreeBSD /usr directory and moved my /usr/ports/distfiles directory to the shared ext2fs partition. At first there seemed to be no problems but when I tried to upgrade KDE and XFree86 using portupgrade the error messages began. XFree86 always encountered errors when checking the checksums of the source tarballs. It would say at first that the checksums were ok but then immediately after crash sying that there were crc errors. KDE was more serious. It would almost immediately crash with a Fatal Trap 12 error and reboot. After finding nothing on the on the forums I finally moved the distfiles to a new drive which I formatted with the FreeBSD ufs filesystem. VOILA!! No more problems. So it seems that FreeBSD support for ext2fs is at fault. So what is the best filesystem to use for a shared partition? For example, does FreeBSD provide better support for ext3fs or resierfs? Or does Linux provide better support for ufs? Any thoughts? Thanks in advance, Ron ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
