Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2007 20:58:06 -0500 From: Eric Crist <mnslinky@gmail.com> To: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Filesystem that both FreeBSD and OS X can read/write Message-ID: <1F87E231-44EB-450F-869A-3E16F82100F6@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <46101A26.9080904@u.washington.edu> References: <8e96a0b90704011053h7cbbf52bkf9e45c623d264a38@mail.gmail.com> <8BB98332-C3CD-4A81-B274-F743CCAD686D@gmail.com> <8e96a0b90704011132i318aa6dsb7f0dfeefe1acb22@mail.gmail.com> <46101A26.9080904@u.washington.edu>
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On Apr 1, 2007, at 3:46 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: > mal content wrote: >> On 01/04/07, Eric Crist <mnslinky@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Apr 1, 2007, at 12:53 PM, mal content wrote: >>> >>> > Hello. >>> > >>> > I have a small USB hard disk enclosure and would like to start >>> > using it to transfer files between OS X and FreeBSD machines. >>> > >>> > Is there a filesystem that both OS X and FreeBSD can reliably >>> > read and write to? I've heard that OS X supports UFS, but there's >>> > no clear definition on what UFS actually is. I mean Free/Open/Net/ >>> > DragonFly all seem to have slightly differing definitions... >>> > >>> > Any ideas? >>> > MC >>> > >>> > (please cc: as I'm not subscribed) >>> >>> My recommendation would be to use *gasp* FAT32 for the file system. >>> This allows you FreeBSD/MacOSX/Linux/ and the occasional Windows >>> support when you eventually need it. If you only need OS X/FreeBSD >>> support, UFS is safe. IIRC, UFS2 is safe, as well. I've got a >>> drive >>> I'm using that I think is UFS2 formatted. I'd check, but it's at >>> the >>> office. >> >> Hi. >> >> Ok, I'll give it a go on an empty drive and see what happens. >> >> Would you recommend formatting the drive on an OS X machine, or >> a FreeBSD machine (or is it irrelevant)? >> >> thanks, >> MC > I'd do it on the FreeBSD machine. IIRC Mac OSX did some funky stuff > with the MBR / slices when formatting disks. > -Garrett I just took another disk, formated with UNIX Files System on my Mac, and it mounts just fine as UFS on my FreeBSD system. ----- Eric F Crist Secure Computing Networks
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