From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Apr 20 15:56:44 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E240D48B9A for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2017 15:56:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tomek.cedro@gmail.com) Received: from mail-oi0-x22e.google.com (mail-oi0-x22e.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4003:c06::22e]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 53703984 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2017 15:56:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tomek.cedro@gmail.com) Received: by mail-oi0-x22e.google.com with SMTP id x184so56813931oia.1 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2017 08:56:44 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=2l71We5HBDPYvTJB2Q5DX2342nD6KsSgYFYn4t3QdG0=; b=SjzYwcUfmAACPePm5mYghlOMCLnwwvTQZmLqlVPOiZ1P5DYwIllXYetUXjaIg7Ay09 ik9BeorXVDsiZ5pwFnR3Zsfh+ubeEDjOuXGM3idDhK+JprOMcjd1MAFdu6OkrlldJrRV xgFo3fz75MUBfu3VwBZwaEoiDE11kOePL2yZ22RTL1nih8w51jFTuFPQtcAZsq0gw6Vs 9Z2QcCO+QjfrlWSOELDjGaIZX8mc4RB2mkWJSyEtva6w2VR5R1TZX149IQ11q/YpJcHz aUzpCJLtBjIw6E5AzWC1da1F2vP4AbcN+IpOGD4z6zPaXdgDDFjO7povVKevS6qo6uaN hj6Q== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=2l71We5HBDPYvTJB2Q5DX2342nD6KsSgYFYn4t3QdG0=; b=gXKV7P6h8dueji6sUmly4WzLzZ+0b9Ne/pNrGygSm1x6iAVFEHei6i5e/kUS0tT6xw K+V00zt1UTxl6NJiqEwqj6/S3gkoL4uD1HW2i4nAy74oImCAtMX/edSfNVyFd/KLk0t5 LUM5rOMxOfgX8mjHNnmXrw/M6mS1n25+aBoNSnDWAo2P+CUvJE5W/ctPO4C3+hrXObf7 WmXSjGC0LPsV+QG4Lm2KpeHekpItoJG+mp41LP7dhAhG2FeNUnnG4PUvAHIBZhqj4gzu pfYuv3B645UjxQy9IwOew5UoLWhfkyEe6RD5+iGvkCFQUkgKKSYXHLTYFgbfRFuykxcp p1SQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AN3rC/4ckycIXQAiGqYmFvx6Yumk1NqT7mriEfpexP8QgCP/jAYL2wIq xHAXxmD2xmGMDphx7EQ1sPMmZkTAHQ== X-Received: by 10.157.7.69 with SMTP id 63mr4505753ote.170.1492703803607; Thu, 20 Apr 2017 08:56:43 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.157.48.88 with HTTP; Thu, 20 Apr 2017 08:56:23 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20170421011323.Q9330@sola.nimnet.asn.au> References: <20170420233840.N9330@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <20170421011323.Q9330@sola.nimnet.asn.au> From: Tomek CEDRO Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 17:56:23 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Accessing UFS partitions from a Macbook To: Ian Smith Cc: Jon Radel , FreeBSD Questions Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 15:56:44 -0000 If you only intend to use external HDD with Mac use native HFS+ that would dramatically increase efficiency over FAT. You may also want to enable encryption that is not really affecting speed noticably and may protect data on a drive in case it gets stolen. If you want to work with large files and windoze you may prefer to use exFAT instead FAT32. That would allow large files on a large drive plus (limited) OS interoperability. Except you will really need to wait long for fsck to finish with *FAT. fsck part is important as macOS tries that on automount and you will see no drive after plugging it into USB port before its verified clean. True, FUSE gets the job done. And it sucks there is still no common filesystem to work well on all OS. UDF could be the candidate, but still most OS can NOT mkfs nor write including FreeBSD :-( Remember about native SSH on macOS (see System Preferences / Sharing / Remote Login) that could give you nice way to get the job done remotely :-) Best regards :-) Tomek -- CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info