From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 27 00:38:01 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CAB716A403 for ; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 00:38:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bill@ayn.mi.celestial.com) Received: from ayn.mi.celestial.com (hayek.celestial.com [192.136.111.12]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 317EB13C469 for ; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 00:38:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bill@ayn.mi.celestial.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ayn.mi.celestial.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B614668621E6E; Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:01:52 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mi.celestial.com Received: from ayn.mi.celestial.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ayn.mi.celestial.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id i2Mfw0r13p7C; Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:01:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: by ayn.mi.celestial.com (Postfix, from userid 203) id 9A1C368621E6A; Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:01:52 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:01:52 -0700 From: Bill Campbell To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070427000152.GA9642@ayn.mi.celestial.com> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <46313884.8050000@vindaloo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <46313884.8050000@vindaloo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 OpenPKG/2.5 Subject: Re: Sharing a USB drive with Mac OS X X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd@celestial.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 00:38:01 -0000 On Thu, Apr 26, 2007, Christopher Hilton wrote: >Has anyone setup (fdisk/newfs) a drive to work on both Mac OS X and >FreeBSD? I'd like to be able to transfer larger datasets between my Mac >and my FreeBSD laptop without using my network. I think that the M$ file system on most external disk drives and flash devices would work. OS X can format UFS (Unix File Systems) as well so it might well be able to deal with a FreeBSD formatted drive (or vice versa). OS X can mount standard ISO formatted CDs as well. Bill -- INTERNET: bill@Celestial.COM Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 ``It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.'' -James Madison, Federalist Paper #62