Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2013 13:08:30 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: mexas@bristol.ac.uk Cc: kostikbel@gmail.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mount: /dev/da0p1: Invalid argument Message-ID: <20130209130830.762096cb.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <201302081230.r18CUpkL034751@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <20130208121432.GV2522@kib.kiev.ua> <201302081230.r18CUpkL034751@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>
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On Fri, 8 Feb 2013 12:30:51 GMT, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > So what is the advice for transferring data > via USB in such cases? Any other gpart partition > I could use? Use "the most universal file system" which isn't even a file system: tar. First, create a tar archive (not a _file_!) to the USB media as if it was a tape. On the sparc machine: # tar cvf /dev/da0 <your stuff> You can add compression flags like z and j if you need. To list what you've got, use "tar t" accordingly. Then uncompress directly from the media on the non-sparc machine: # tar xvf /dev/da0 See "man tar" for other options you might want to add. Also note that in this case, no file system is involved, so you can't mount anything here. > In the end I burned a CD with the files in question, > but it's a bit of a waste, as I only need to > move over several KB of data (wireless setup). That's true. Don't you have any floppies at hand? ;-) (Note: The tar approach also works on floppies, and even across OS borders, e. g. between Solaris and Linux.) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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