[Gllug] Win&Lin accessible filesystems

Bruce Richardson itsbruce at uklinux.net
Wed Dec 12 21:42:59 UTC 2001


On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 04:30:51PM -0000, Paul Brazier wrote:
> Is it possible to do this with Linux? All the Linuxes I've seen (not
> many admittedly) are on DOS primary/extended(logical) partions. Maybe
> this is because they often co-exist with Windows.
> But could a single-boot Linux machine do this in theory?

The kernel has an option to support BSD slices.  I don't think you could
resize them dynamically the way BSD lets you, though.  Not with Ext2 on
them, anyway.

-- 
Bruce

If the universe were simple enough to be understood, we would be too
simple to understand it.
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