Re: sharing FW drive w/OS-X

From: Jerry McAllister (jerrymc_at_clunix.cl.msu.edu)
Date: 09/05/03

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    To: spork@fasttrackmonkey.com (Charles Sprickman)
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 16:00:00 -0400 (EDT)

    >
    > Hi,
    >
    > I've been battling this for some time, and I figured perhaps someone here
    > has done this already. I have a 60GB IDE drive in a firewire enclosure.
    > Works great w/FreeBSD. It's partitioned like so:
    >
    > Offset Size(ST) End Name PType Desc Subtype
    > Flags
    >
    > 0 63 62 - 12 unused 0
    > 63 94365747 94365809 da0s1 8 freebsd 165
    > 94365810 22860495 117226304 da0s2 7 fat 6
    > 117226305 5103 117231407 - 12 unused 0
    >
    >
    > And I'd like to use one of those spare fdisk partitons (not a slice) on my
    > OS-X machine for backup purposes.

    Maybe you are confusing the terms. fdisk makes "slices" not partitions.
    Within a slice, disklabel makes partitions. Each of those pieces you
    have listed above are slices.

    Since Microsloth calls slices partitions, I am not surprised that
    this is confusing.

    ////jerry

    > The "fat" partition is left over from a
    > test to see if a "newfs_msdos" partition would mount on OS-X (it did).
    > Any idea on the partition ID for HFS?
    >
    > >From the little info I could find, OS-X/Apple has their own partition
    > table in sector 2, which is independant of the "normal" partition table.
    >
    > Rather than delve into this further and confuse the issue, I'll leave this
    > at "Has anyone done this?"...
    >
    > Thanks,
    >
    > Charles
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