Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:28:24 +0100 From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mount usb flash drive - files inconsistent with amd64 Message-ID: <20110923132823.GA3053@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20110923131052.GW45024@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <20110923090639.GA54307@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20110923131052.GW45024@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 03:10:52PM +0200, Joerg Wunsch wrote: > As Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > > What's going on? > > Is this expected? > > Or has this flash drive got corrupted somehow? > > My guess is that you've mixed two filesystems on it, a UFS on the > entire stick, and a FAT fs on a slice. The AMD64 cannot mount the UFS > because of the reverse byte order. On the Sparc, are you sure you > actually enabled fdisk partitions? I've no idea I had to do this, so I guess no. Where can I read more about enabling fdisk partitions on sparc? I need this usb stick to be recognised by Windows systems, so I guess I have to format is with fdisk first? I definitely haven't done it manually. So I guess when I wrote data on it on a Windows system, the FAT slice was created by Windows. Is this likely? Many thanks -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423
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