Re: umass device disklabel not detected properly in macppc

2019-12-19 Thread rgcinjp
thanks for the reply and clarifications. much appreciated. after reading the reply i went back and checked the disk. on amd64 Linux and OpenBSD fdisk shows the GPT properly. (output of Linux fdisk) Disk /dev/sdc: 235.58 GiB, 252933308416 bytes, 494010368 sectors Disk model: SSD-PEU3 Units:

Re: umass device disklabel not detected properly in macppc

2019-12-19 Thread Theo de Raadt
No, it has to do with disklabel placement. It will work if the ext2fs filesystem is listed as a MBR partition, but not if it is only listed as a disklabel entry. But after that, you potentially have other issues... we do not make promises about filesystem compatibility between architectures.

Re: umass device disklabel not detected properly in macppc

2019-12-19 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Short version: Looks like something's wrong either with your hardware or software: I have the same computer, with OBSD 6.5 installed, and no problems mounting thumbs - maybe try another thumb, or recreate the ext2 partition, or use a stable OBSD, instead of current ... Here on macppc:

Re: umass device disklabel not detected properly in macppc

2019-12-18 Thread Theo de Raadt
The disklabel sector is a not a machine-independent format, and it moves between different sectors on some machines. You'll find we make no promises about this type of disk-portability. MBR or GPT label? Yes. Our own disklabels, unfortunately not. rgci...@disroot.org wrote: > dear all, > >