I have recently decided to install FreeBSD on my desktop but I still have several computers running GNU/Linux and I would like to share disk partitions between the two OSs, in particular:
- The computer using FreeBSD will also have a GNU/Linux distribution installed and I would like to have a shared partition that can be read / written by both FreeBSD and GNU/Linux.
- I would like to use external hard-disk drives and USB-sticks from both operating systems.
By reading various documentation and online forums, I understood that ext2
is the only solution right now: ufs
write-support in Linux is still experimental, FreeBSD has limited support for ext3
, and supports ext4
and ReiserFS
read-only. Did I miss something, i.e. are there other viable filesystems?
Best Answer
You can use
ext2
. Support forext2
has existed in FreeBSD for a while and can probably be considered stable. Of course it is native in GNU/Linux as you know.You could also use
ext3
but without journal and extended attributes (use mount options in Linux/etc/fstab
), which would increase some limits.This is probably much better than using a fs which is not native on any of the two systems, like NTFS and the like.
Source: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/filesystems-linux.html