Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:30:23 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@telenix.org> Cc: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: filesystem compatibility between FreeBSD and OpenBSD Message-ID: <20090429213023.3def9c37.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <49F89E2F.2040806@telenix.org> References: <49F89E2F.2040806@telenix.org>
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On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:36:31 -0400, Chuck Robey <chuckr@telenix.org> wrote: > Is there ANY filesystem that would be a good bet, so that I could transfer stuff > to & from FreeBSD to OpenBSD? Besides (obviously) UFS? Yes, there is, and it even isn't a file system. It's tar. You can easily create a tar archive and transfer it from device to device, maybe using a "transfer hard disk". I know this sounds stupid, but it works. The disk just needs to be formatted, it can be a hard disk, an optical disc, even an USB thumb drive, or a floppy disk. Doesn't matter. Just format it. Then: % tar cvf /dev/<device> <yourstuff> on the source OS. On the target OS, simply run this command: % tar xvf /dev/<device> I could employ this method successfully to transfer data between different UNIXens and Linusi. :-) -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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