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Witepa
January 4th, 2009, 01:39
I'm trying to share an external hard drive between an OS X system and a FreeBSD system, but I'm wondering whether I should format it as UFS or HFS+. This decision, of course, would be made easy of one of the OS's could not read the other's filesystem. I do know, however, that OS X can read and write on both of the filesystems, and also that HFS+ provides many features superior to that of UFS.

I do not need to be able to boot FreeBSD on HFS+, it just needs to be able to read and write it. Is this possible?

Thanks,

Jordan
graudeejs
January 4th, 2009, 01:51
have you ever tried search?
Just few (13 at the moment of writing this) threads below yours there is this
https://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=1198
grrrr
Witepa
January 4th, 2009, 02:22
Yeah, I did actually, I searched HFS+ and HFS, got no results (which I am really confused about). When searching right now, I still get no results, but your link does work and does show that I am an idiot.

Sorry about this though... I'm not one to ask without searching first.
graudeejs
January 4th, 2009, 02:24
eh... it happens to everyone... it was just so obvious... lol
Speedy
January 5th, 2009, 14:03
Yeah, I did actually, I searched HFS+ and HFS, got no results (which I am really confused about). When searching right now, I still get no results, but your link does work and does show that I am an idiot.

If you are not happy with search features on some site use Google.
Google search string:

site:http://forums.freebsd.org "HFS+"
graudeejs
January 5th, 2009, 14:05
If you are not happy with search features on some site use Google.
Google search string: site:http://forums.freebsd.org "HFS+"

forum search was broken at the time...
link i gave was pretty new, so it might not have been cached by google at the time....