Yeah, this sounds like a way to a solution. Of course, the drive isn't mine :-/ so I'm sort of powerless on this point.
The consensus seems to be though that FreeBSD doesn't support reading those mac disklabels (partitions)... I wonder, can FreeBSD read GPT organized disks (ia64) under i386? -Paul >From Doug Hardie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 09:14:44AM -0700: > > On Jun 20, 2005, at 07:59, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > > > > >On Jun 20, 2005, at 8:12 AM, Bob Bomar wrote: > > > > > >>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >>Hash: SHA1 > >> > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>| I went to mount a UFS filesystem on an OSX prepared drive and > >>discovered > >>| that apparantly FreeBSD can't read mac disklabels? Is this true > >>or am I > >>| missing something? > >>| > >> > >>OS X Uses HFS+ which FreeBSD can not read. Its an Apple format. > >>There were some tools in ports to read HFS fs's, but not HFS+. > >> > > > >OS X also supports a form of UFS btw > > If the drive was formatted using Disk Utility there is a very hidden > option for "Apple Partitioning Scheme" or "PC Partitioning Scheme". > The Apple Partitioning Scheme is the default. The only documentation > I could find on those options is a note that if you want to be able > to mount the drive on a PC you must use the PC Partitioning Scheme. > I suspect that the Apple Partitioning Scheme uses a different format > for the partition map which may not be handled by anything else. -- _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"