Ivan Voras <ivo...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 02/18/10 16:26, Harald Weis wrote:
> > Has anybody encountered the following problem ?
> >
> > Mac OS X does recognize FreeBSD partitions on USB disks, but
> > doesn't want to mount them because ``Incorrect super block''.
> > This is extremely annoying for my ``client'' because he relies
> > on dayly backups on USB keys. Is there a solution ?
>
> Are you using UFS1 or UFS2? If one, try the other :)

This is not the first time I've heard of one OS having problems with
another OS' instantiation of UFS.  For the particular application at
hand, I'd use tar(1) to collect the files into a single stream and
write the tarfile onto a USB key formatted as FAT32.  OS X should
have no trouble reading a FreeBSD tarfile.
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