2008/6/27 Moinak Ghosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 11:35 PM, Shawn Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 2008/6/27 W. Wayne Liauh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>>> Folks; >>>> >>>> another migration-related question: I do have a >>>> fairly well sized USB >>>> drive to hold data so far to share between Linux, >>>> Windows and >>>> OpenSolaris, thus the lowest common denominator (in >>>> terms of file >>>> systems) being FAT32. Taken into account I do have >>>> also to backup a few >>>> VirtualBox images (which are larger than FAT32 >>>> allows), I will have to >>>> reformat this drive anyhow, so my question: What kind >>>> of file system >>>> would suit best the need of being written to in Linux >>>> _and_ read from in >>>> OpenSolaris? (This is just for the migration of >>>> config and some data >>>> indeed, I'll have to go for FAT32 again after for the >>>> Windows situations >>>> anyhow...). >>>> >>>> Comments, anyone? >>>> TIA and best regards, >>>> Kristian >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Kristian Rink * http://zimmer428.net * >>>> http://flickr.com/photos/z428/ >>>> jab: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * icq: 48874445 * fon: ++49 >>>> 176 2447 2771 >>> >>> Can't you format your USB stick in ufs2? I believe most Linux distros can >>> read and write ufs partitions. Correct? >> >> Not the Solaris ufs at last check -- just ufs as seen in older BSDs. > > Yes the Linux ufs module does support Solaris ufs: mount -o ufstype=sunx86 > I used it regularly in Ubuntu to access data from the Nevada partition. > However Ubuntu only enables read-only support. Write support is > experimental.
Maybe it's ufs2 I'm thinking of... Thanks for the note Moinak. -- Shawn Walker _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
