Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:30:56 -0500 (CDT) From: Tim Nelson <tnelson@fudnet.net> To: freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Sparc64 partitions compatible with PC? Message-ID: <23079290.21216315856959.JavaMail.root@zmail.fudnet.net> In-Reply-To: <8599571.01216315819690.JavaMail.root@zmail.fudnet.net>
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IIRC... there are some oddities between the disk labels having to do with the big and little "endian-ness" (if that's a word?!?) on each of the architectures. I tried using a SPARC partitioned drive on an x86 machine a while back and never was able to access the data. Hopefully someone else has had a better experience with it... --Tim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Didrik Madheden" <didrik@kth.se> To: freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.org Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 11:56:12 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central Subject: Sparc64 partitions compatible with PC? I have a Sparc box that I use mainly as an FTP server. (SunBlad 100 if it makes a ny difference) What I want to do now is to move that disk to an x86 box. The disk is partitioned in the following way: A single big native partition, with a number of labels. (Or are disklabels the native partitioning on Sparc? I don't remember) Anyway, I have a couple of small labels for the usual system stuff and a big one for storage. What I want to do is wipe the system related labels and only keep the one used for storage. (And consequently do a fresh install on the PC) My concern however is that the Sun partitioning will be incompatible with PC partitioning. If so, can anyone give advice on how to move the disk to a PC? Since it's a big disk, I'd like to avoid mirroring it. /Didrik Madheden _______________________________________________ freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-sparc64 To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-sparc64-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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