Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 13:21:06 -0500 From: Gary Corcoran <garycor@comcast.net> To: Bram Van Steenlandt <brampie@no-wackos.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mac UFS partition unreadable Message-ID: <41C71812.6010007@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <41C5CF17.9010600@no-wackos.com> References: <41C5CF17.9010600@no-wackos.com>
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Bram Van Steenlandt wrote: > 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 MS-DOS FAT32 will support large drives and long filenames, if you can find a way to get it formatted. Windows98 would be one way to get it formatted (Win2000 and WinXP will NOT allow a large (>32GB) disk to be formatted as FAT32). Gary
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