On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 09:16:02AM -0500, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: > Hi all, > I format a ext disk (UFS) and transfer some files into it, hand it > over to my friend who has a macbook. He complained the macbook can't > read it. I don't have a mac on hand, I wonder if there is any utility > that will help a mac to read a BSD, thanks!!
The easiest way to do what you are attempting is to format the disk FAT. Then to preserve file attributes write your files in a tar archive. MacOS X knows UFS but might not know how to decipher a FreeBSD disk label. I haven't honestly tried. What I did do once was move a couple of drives previously used as a vinum striped RAID to MacOS X. Was frustrated that the MacOS Drive Utility would not allow me to create another striped volume on those drives. What I found out was that the drives had a Microsoft compatible disk label written by FreeBSD which MacOS was happily honoring. Would happily put an HFS+ partition on the drives. But MacOS X RAID had to be established at a lower level using a Macintosh disk label. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net ======================================================================== Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
