multi-OSes and partitioning

[Alan McKinnon]

On Monday 10 April 2006 03:07, taeb wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 10:15:45PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:

<SNIP>

> > P1: freeDOS	~100M
> > P2: minix3	~900M
> > P3: freeBSD	~59G
> > E4:		remainder
> >   L5: Linux 1
> >   L6: Linux 2
> >   L7: swap
> >   L8: home
>
> If I understand correctly it sounds like I could skip P3, put a
> partition inside E4 and let freeBSD use it.  Not sure that'll work,
> although I might try it if I have some time, just to see.  I'll
> probably stay with something like the above. :)

I was going to suggest doing exactly that, then realized I didn't know 
how FreeBSD would react :-) My gut feel is that FreeBSD handles 
partitions with the same ease as Linux does, but I'd be interested to 
know the results of an actual test.


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