From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 20 18:18:49 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7E5A16A4CE for ; Mon, 20 Dec 2004 18:18:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rwcrmhc11.comcast.net (rwcrmhc13.comcast.net [204.127.198.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 742EB43D49 for ; Mon, 20 Dec 2004 18:18:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from garycor@comcast.net) Received: from [10.56.78.111] (pcp09118143pcs.union01.nj.comcast.net[69.142.234.88]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc13) with ESMTP id <20041220181839015008rcpqe>; Mon, 20 Dec 2004 18:18:44 +0000 Message-ID: <41C71812.6010007@comcast.net> Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 13:21:06 -0500 From: Gary Corcoran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bram Van Steenlandt References: <41C5CF17.9010600@no-wackos.com> In-Reply-To: <41C5CF17.9010600@no-wackos.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mac UFS partition unreadable X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 18:18:49 -0000 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