Subject: Re: analysis of Darwin ufs filesystem differences
To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
From: Henry B. Hotz <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>
List: port-macppc
Date: 12/18/2001 10:50:44
At 10:32 AM -0800 12/18/01, Bill Studenmund wrote:
>On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, Henry B. Hotz wrote:
>
>> For the lurkers: if you want a fs type that can be shared today use
>> a MS-DOS FAT-16 partition. It's UGLY, but it works.
>
>Is there an Apple partition name for MSDOS file systems so that all OSs
>know what they are? i.e. so our disklabel code says its an MSDOS
>partition?
Not from what I did.
I just did the usual Unix stuff from the command line in NetBSD and
in OSX. The partition I used was marked as A/UX swap in the
partition map.
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