Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 03:22:08 +1000 (EST) From: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> To: Tomek CEDRO <tomek.cedro@gmail.com> Cc: Jon Radel <jon@radel.com>, FreeBSD Questions Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Accessing UFS partitions from a Macbook Message-ID: <20170421021427.F9330@sola.nimnet.asn.au> In-Reply-To: <CAFYkXjkmW-WjAyx2QSjLo3ZLZCvDmWpvYbK7c95VHva=%2By_O7g@mail.gmail.com> References: <20170420233840.N9330@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <CAFYkXjmuWxi-8VCLCc-Ks_Ct=Ezw22z6nWb5QJiwB4CPrXbaRQ@mail.gmail.com> <20170421011323.Q9330@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <CAFYkXjkmW-WjAyx2QSjLo3ZLZCvDmWpvYbK7c95VHva=%2By_O7g@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 17:56:23 +0200, Tomek CEDRO wrote: > 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. Thanks for info. This is mostly for a one-off copy, largest files are ~200MiB .wavs, plus some .mp3s, .png spectrograms and several programs, not too big for FAT32, neither will be a say 96GiB partition, though I'll need to limit any compreesed archives to <4GiB on FAT32. > 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 :-( Considering how BSD-ish it seems in Terminal - df, du and other commands working as expected - I was a bit surprised that it doesn't support UFS natively, given its heritage. When I first ran mount it complained - as will FreeBSD without an fstab entry - about needing the -t switch, but 'mount -t ufs' didn't complain about that but a (not) missing directory. > Remember about native SSH on macOS (see System Preferences / Sharing / > Remote Login) that could give you nice way to get the job done > remotely :-) Thanks for the method .. ssh access was shaping to be my next question, sftp -p likely being the quickest short-term solution here, and I won't need to scare my daughter by messing around with her precious Macbook :) cheers, Ian
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