From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 21 07:58:29 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 705EC16A4CE for ; Tue, 21 Dec 2004 07:58:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AD8A43D2F for ; Tue, 21 Dec 2004 07:58:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id iBL7vr8T064795; Tue, 21 Dec 2004 18:27:53 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 18:27:46 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.1 References: <41C5CF17.9010600@no-wackos.com> <41C71812.6010007@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <41C71812.6010007@comcast.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2143973.hP7vpQMvsI"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200412211827.52446.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -5.4 () IN_REP_TO,PGP_SIGNATURE_2,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_KMAIL X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.16 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) cc: Gary Corcoran cc: Bram Van Steenlandt 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: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 07:58:29 -0000 --nextPart2143973.hP7vpQMvsI Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 04:51, Gary Corcoran wrote: > > 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. I am guessing endian issues here but I am not sure.. > 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). You can use newfs_msdos to format a FAT32 partition in FreeBSD. It will wor= k=20 up to ~200Gb, and then FreeBSD won't mount it unless you have a special=20 option in your kernel.. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart2143973.hP7vpQMvsI Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBBx9eA5ZPcIHs/zowRAhBoAJ0dF1N9U7sb6t5FT4BdVEKlXHFbygCfbtE2 9dqfjQde0sDHdb/XotoSvXg= =u5gX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2143973.hP7vpQMvsI--