Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 16:00:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: spork@fasttrackmonkey.com (Charles Sprickman) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sharing FW drive w/OS-X Message-ID: <200309052000.h85K00mJ025111@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20030905154536.A822@green.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com> from "Charles Sprickman" at Sep 05, 2003 03:52:30 PM
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> > 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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