Re: [osol-discuss] USB drive for Linux - OS migration: file system?

2008-06-30 Thread Joerg Schilling
Shawn Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: [osol-discuss] USB drive for Linux - OS migration: file system?

2008-06-27 Thread Kristian Rink
Paul Gress schrieb: You could try the Universal Disk Format (UDF). I believe all three platforms should support it. Check into this. Hmmm, interesting idea... I haven't so far bothered even dealing with it as I just happened to know UDF in relation to any kind of recordable media, but

Re: [osol-discuss] USB drive for Linux - OS migration: file system?

2008-06-27 Thread Joerg Schilling
Paul Gress [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could try the Universal Disk Format (UDF). I believe all three platforms should support it. Check into this. Sure? Did you verify that? UDF file systems as written by mkisofs (and thus unchangeable) can be read by all platforms but once you start

Re: [osol-discuss] USB drive for Linux - OS migration: file system?

2008-06-27 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
Paul Gress [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could try the Universal Disk Format (UDF). I believe all three platforms should support it. Check into this. Sure? Did you verify that? UDF file systems as written by mkisofs (and thus unchangeable) can be read by all platforms but

Re: [osol-discuss] USB drive for Linux - OS migration: file system?

2008-06-27 Thread Joerg Schilling
Richard L. Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: UDF file systems as written by mkisofs (and thus unchangeable) can be read by all platforms but once you start to use writable UDF, compatibility usually ends. Jörg Is the specification too immature or incomplete (or in too many

Re: [osol-discuss] USB drive for Linux - OS migration: file system?

2008-06-27 Thread Dennis Clarke
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 1:18 PM, Richard L. Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Gress [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could try the Universal Disk Format (UDF). I believe all three platforms should support it. Check into this. To get from a Linux machine to OpenSolaris or Solaris, with

Re: [osol-discuss] USB drive for Linux - OS migration: file system?

2008-06-27 Thread Mike Gerdts
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 8:38 AM, Kristian Rink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: [osol-discuss] USB drive for Linux - OS migration: file system?

2008-06-27 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
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

Re: [osol-discuss] USB drive for Linux - OS migration: file system?

2008-06-27 Thread Shawn Walker
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

Re: [osol-discuss] USB drive for Linux - OS migration: file system?

2008-06-27 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
Not the Solaris ufs at last check -- just ufs as seen in older BSDs. -- Shawn Walker I take it that Solaris won't r/w the BSD-ufs? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] USB drive for Linux - OS migration: file system?

2008-06-27 Thread Moinak Ghosh
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

Re: [osol-discuss] USB drive for Linux - OS migration: file system?

2008-06-27 Thread Shawn Walker
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,

Re: [osol-discuss] USB drive for Linux - OS migration: file system?

2008-06-27 Thread Johan Hartzenberg
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 9:13 PM, Shawn Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

[osol-discuss] USB drive for Linux - OS migration: file system?

2008-06-26 Thread Kristian Rink
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

Re: [osol-discuss] USB drive for Linux - OS migration: file system?

2008-06-26 Thread Frank . Hofmann
On Thu, 26 Jun 2008, Kristian Rink wrote: 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

Re: [osol-discuss] USB drive for Linux - OS migration: file system?

2008-06-26 Thread Kristian Rink
Frank; [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: In that case, I'd use star to write directly to the media, i.e. create an empty/unused primary partition on the drive (what'd be /dev/hd.X, 1 = indeed sounds reasonable, I completely forgot about the idea of directly dumping things to the drive without

Re: [osol-discuss] USB drive for Linux - OS migration: file system?

2008-06-26 Thread Paul Gress
Kristian Rink wrote: 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