> Hi :)
> 
> I've got much more than four installs on my machine. One FreeBSD and
> tons of Linux installs. The reason for having tons of Linux installs is,
> that I don't have the perfect hardware, but I use Linux as an audio
> production environment.

very cool. I'm guessing burmester amps, AKG headphones and turtlebeach hardware 
or similar ? 

> It's useless for me to set up a virtual machine to test different
> setups, since there is no emulation of my professional and
> semi-professional audio cards and there is no emulation of my mobo
> either and hardly a virtual machine will be real-time capable.

Well, VMware ESX is very very good but also very very expensive and 
no way would it do what you want. 

I wasn't aware there was professional sound editing software for Linux. 
What sort of software are you running?  Just curious here. 
 
> I'm not using all installs, some are just waiting to be replaced by the
> next test install, but around 3 installs are used and at least 2
> installs usually are maintained.
> 
> Regarding to the most useful partitioning scheme, I agree that DOS/EBR
> is the easiest to use. With VBox I tested LVM and I never ever will use
> it by choice. BSD is similar to LVM and I only use it, because I have 
> no choice.

I come from the Solaris world and I can say I have no clue about Virtual
Box. While Oracle may own it I just don't see it as a viable and serious
replacement for VMware.  I may be wrong and should run a test just
out of blind curiosity.

> There are two HDDs mounted to the computer, one is around 300 GiB, the
> other is around 500 GiB small. Other users might have much more space 
> on their HDDs, so it's useful to have many partitions.
> 
> Since Linux can't show the partitions inside the BSD slice, this is how
> my setup is seen by FreeBSD:
> 
> root@freebsd:/usr/home/rocketmouse # gpart show
> =>       63  625142385  ada0  MBR  (298G)
>           63  121274433     1  freebsd  [active]  (57G)
>    121274496        250        - free -  (125k)
>    121274746  503862599     2  ebr  (240G)
>    625137345       5103        - free -  (2.5M)
> 
> =>        0  121274433  ada0s1  BSD  (57G)
>            0    2097152       1  freebsd-ufs  (1.0G)
>      2097152    8388608       2  freebsd-swap  (4.0G)
>     10485760   16209920       4  freebsd-ufs  (7.7G)
>     26695680    2097152       5  freebsd-ufs  (1.0G)
>     28792832   92481601       6  freebsd-ufs  (44G)
> 
> =>        0  503862599  ada0s2  EBR  (240G)
>            0   62476724       1  ntfs  (29G)
>     62476724   62669565  991695  linux-data  (29G)
>    125146289   62862345  1986450  linux-data  (30G)
>    188008634   52684236  2984265  linux-data  (25G)
>    240692870   73650176  3820522  linux-data  (35G)
>    314343046        748          - free -  (374k)
>    314343794    4546395  4989585  linux-swap  (2.2G)
>    318890189  121708440  5061750  linux-data  (58G)
>    440598629    7341705  6993630  linux-data  (3.5G)
>    447940334   46299330  7110165  linux-data  (22G)
>    494239664    9622935  7845075  linux-data  (4.6G)
> 
> =>       63  976773105  ada1  MBR  (465G)
>           63   42973812     1  linux-data  (20G)
>     42973875         61        - free -  (30k)
>     42973936  933794129     2  ebr  (445G)
>    976768065       5103        - free -  (2.5M)
> 
> =>      63  46299204  ada0s13  MBR  (22G)
>          63  46299204           - free -  (22G)
> 
> =>        0  933794129  ada1s2  EBR  (445G)
>            0   42957749       1  linux-data  (20G)
>     42957749   42765030  681870  linux-data  (20G)
>     85722779    5092605  1360680  linux-swap  (2.4G)
>     90815384   42154560  1441515  linux-data  (20G)
>    132969944   43246980  2110635  linux-data  (20G)
>    176216924    1020340  2797095  linux-data  (498M)
>    177237264   26476544  2813290  linux-data  (12G)
>    203713808  100861952  3233553  linux-data  (48G)
>    304575760        514          - free -  (257k)
>    304576274  209759742  4834545  linux-data  (100G)
>    514336016        963          - free -  (481k)
>    514336979  419456061  8164080  linux-data  (200G)
>    933793040       1089          - free -  (544k)
> 
> =>      63  46299204  ext2fs/backs  MBR  (22G)
>          63  46299204                - free -  (22G)
> 
> The NTFS partition doesn't include Windows, only FreeBSD and Linux are
> installed and not all Linux partitons are Linux installs, some are just
> for different data.

I totally get that.  If anything the partition data looks reasonable and seems 
to say, here is a slice of disk at this cylinder and for this many contiguous
cylinders and that makes sense to me.
 
> When my machine was a recent machine, there anyway was no Windows
> installed. Why should I pay for something I won't use? I also didn't buy
> a pre-built computer, I assembled the machine myself and I'm for sure
> not the only one who mounted the PC at home, instead of buying an
> expensive discounter PC.

I don't buy off the shelf either.  There is no reason for me to do that. My 
biggest concern is support for NVidia quadro cards and that seems to 
be a real problem.  There are closed drivers from NVidia and then other
drivers from the Debian free repo's call nouveau or some such name. 

Regardless, getting a reasonable graphics card to work well seems to 
be a problem.  
 
> Perhaps I should rename the thread to "customized computer". I'm just
> kidding. At the moment I suffer from incompatibility between FreeBSD and
> Linux. Both *NIX are more compatible to Windows, IMO a grotesque
> situation.

eek ...

Well I run RHEL6 on my main workstation which is a Sun Ultra 40 machine 
with a pack of disks and graphics cards in it. My hope was to drive a big
high res monitor like a HP LP 3065 but getting a movie to play onto my wall 
mounted 27 inch monitor is a real hassle as RHEL6 has crappy video support
of the NVidia quadro 3500 and 4500 cards. The audio is a problem as the
Creative Live! card seems to be largely unsupported. 

Just a hassle. 

> I'm sharing the same directory for emails, by several Linux installs.
> 
> root@precise:~# ls -l /home/spinymouse/.local/share/evolution
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 spinymouse spinymouse    58 Apr 28  2012 mail -> 
> /mnt/archlinux/home/spinymouse/.local/share/evolution/mail
> 
> I would like to share it with Evolution from my FreeBSD install, but
> there's an issue regarding to permissions.
> 
> Now it's really OT, but perhaps somebody can help.

Not at all OT until you ask how to install Windows 3.51 on your IBM PowerPC
Model 80 PS/2 desktop.  Then we are way OT. 

> For FreeBSD I don't have control about the permissions of mounted Linux
> ext3 partitions.
> 
> I get:
> 
> root@freebsd:/usr/home/rocketmouse # ls -l /mnt
> drwxrwx---  21 1000  1000   4096 Oct 28 19:11 archlinux
> drwxrwxrwx   2 root  wheel  4096 Jan 20 20:09 dump
> 
> The user is able to access /dump, but only /root can access /archlinux.
> The uid of the FreeBSD user is 1001. I wonder why for /archlinux I get
> rwxrwx--- and for /dump rwxrwxrwx, those permissions, user and group
> will be changed automatically.

starting from the top, what are the perms of the mountpoint?  What is the uid
and gid for that mountpoint and then if you try to mount -t ext3 /dev/foo 
/someplace 
with maybe -o noatime what do you get ? 

What are the uid/gid for the directory you want to mount ? 

I am hoping it is something trivial.  

dc


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