Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 19:57:27 +0100 From: Bram Van Steenlandt <brampie@no-wackos.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Mac UFS partition unreadable Message-ID: <41C5CF17.9010600@no-wackos.com>
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Hi, I use both mac and freebsd and would like to have the abbility to use my external firewire drive on both plattforms. This should be possible because both are BSD and both can use UFS. However when I plug an freebsd formatted drive into my mac he is rather confused by first saying that he can't read this drive and I should format it. Then when I try to mount it from the terminal he complains about the superblocks, when I run some utils they sometimes say they can't determine the partition type, also when I look into /dev there is nothing that indicates that this drive has partitions. So I formatted the drive on my mac into UFS. Same thing happens on freebsd. I did some googling and it appears to be so that this could be because of little vs big endian. I am however rather new to freebsd and have no idea what the difference is. So what can I do to have a drive readable to both OSes ? note: drive is 160 Gig seagate mac is running 10.3.5 freebsd is amd 64 5.3 RELEASE mac supported disk formats are MS-DOS,UFS,HFS,HFS+ I now that HFS or MS-DOS would work but then I have no support for 160 gig / long filenames I'm out of inspiration Thanks In advance Bram
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