Re: Mac UFS partition unreadable
From: Daniel O'Connor (doconnor_at_gsoft.com.au)
Date: 12/21/04
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To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 18:27:46 +1030
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 work
up to ~200Gb, and then FreeBSD won't mount it unless you have a special
option in your kernel..
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