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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
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