Re: Compiling fastfetch / Can I share a directory with VM?

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August 18, 2025 at 8:20 AM, "Osama Albahrani" <[email protected] mailto:[email protected]?to=%22Osama%20Albahrani%22%20%3Cosalbahr%40gmail.com%3E > wrote:

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> Hi,
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>  I am trying to port fastfetch (issue https://github.com/fastfetch-cli/fastfetch/issues/1895). The hope is that such a package should not be difficult to port as a first contribution.
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>  However, it turned out to be more difficult than I expected, but I want to see how far I can get anyways. My current progress is in https://github.com/osalbahr/fastfetch/tree/add-hurd-support if anyone wants to pick up where I left off.
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>  It would greatly help with porting if I could somehow share a directory between Fedora and the Debian GNU/Hurd VM. Is there a way to do that? I want to share a directory so I can use Visual Studio Code. I am aware that I can probably just use scp by setting up ssh, but sharing a directory is nicer.
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>  Best,
>  Osama


If you want to be able to mount say the Hurd's /home directory with Linux.... The Hurd uses ext2 only.  So I believe that Linux still supports ext2, so you should be able to do this.  Maybe ask on someone on irc #hurd on libera-chat

Joshua
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