Partitioning

[thully]

Hello,
I'm preparing to install a Linux distribution. How do I best divide up the partitions? I want to be able to try FreeBSD in the future, yet save my Linux home directory etc. I have 5GB of space at the end of this drive for these operating systems. Could I make a few ext2 partitions and just format the main ext2 partition as UFS when I want to try FreeBSD? Would the Linux /home work in FreeBSD? Any other suggestions?

[henri]

I'm not sure but I think that BSD doesn't know anything about ext2fs (the default file system for linux) so keep linux and BSD apart
say half of your spare space

[Strike]

BSDs also use a different partitioning scheme anyway. They take a single partition and then divide it further into "slices" (seems kinda counter-intuitive if you ask me, but... nobody did).

But yes, the default filesystem for BSDs is not ext2, though I'm pretty sure they could read it (but not sure that the default kernels have that support built-in, and hence, it would make the kernel unbootable).