From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 5 13:00:06 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E99B716A4F7 for ; Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:00:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F12A43FD7 for ; Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:00:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h85K01Og025113; Fri, 5 Sep 2003 16:00:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h85K00mJ025111; Fri, 5 Sep 2003 16:00:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200309052000.h85K00mJ025111@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: spork@fasttrackmonkey.com (Charles Sprickman) Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 16:00:00 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20030905154536.A822@green.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com> from "Charles Sprickman" at Sep 05, 2003 03:52:30 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sharing FW drive w/OS-X X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 20:00:07 -0000 > > Hi, > > I've been battling this for some time, and I figured perhaps someone here > has done this already. I have a 60GB IDE drive in a firewire enclosure. > Works great w/FreeBSD. It's partitioned like so: > > Offset Size(ST) End Name PType Desc Subtype > Flags > > 0 63 62 - 12 unused 0 > 63 94365747 94365809 da0s1 8 freebsd 165 > 94365810 22860495 117226304 da0s2 7 fat 6 > 117226305 5103 117231407 - 12 unused 0 > > > And I'd like to use one of those spare fdisk partitons (not a slice) on my > OS-X machine for backup purposes. Maybe you are confusing the terms. fdisk makes "slices" not partitions. Within a slice, disklabel makes partitions. Each of those pieces you have listed above are slices. Since Microsloth calls slices partitions, I am not surprised that this is confusing. ////jerry > The "fat" partition is left over from a > test to see if a "newfs_msdos" partition would mount on OS-X (it did). > Any idea on the partition ID for HFS? > > >From the little info I could find, OS-X/Apple has their own partition > table in sector 2, which is independant of the "normal" partition table. > > Rather than delve into this further and confuse the issue, I'll leave this > at "Has anyone done this?"... > > Thanks, > > Charles > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >