external usb disk

[韓家標 Bill Hacker]

Matthieu Bollot wrote:
> Le dimanche 25 novembre 2007 à 14:09 +0100, Marten Vijn a écrit :
>> On Sun, 2007-11-25 at 00:37 +0100, Matthieu Bollot wrote:
>>> Hi, I've got a 250GB ide disk, that I put in an external usb box.
>> <snip>
>> You might try the handbook
>>
>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks-adding.html
>>
>> kind regards,
>> Marten
> 
> Thanks for answering me, but I've read it again and again. And there are
> two things. the first one, I don't want to add a new disk in this way
> because there are already 3 partitions. So, I should just have to
> mount...
> 
> And the second thing, here is what I've got when i try the handbook
> way :
> 
> #dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=1k count=1
> dd: /dev/da0: end of device
> 1+0 records in
> 0+0 records out
> 0 bytes transferred in 0.001107 secs (0 bytes/sec)
> 
> #fdisk -BI da0
> ******* Working on device /dev/da0 *******
> fdisk: invalid fdisk partition table found
> fdisk: Geom not found
> fdisk: Failed to write sector zero
> 
> 
> I've found some other strange things :
> 
> linux :
> 
> sarah:/home/mattboll# mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/sth
> sarah:/home/mattboll# cd /mnt/sth
> sarah:/mnt/sth# ls
> lost+found
> sarah:/mnt/sth# mkdir music
> sarah:/mnt/sth# echo hello >aze
> sarah:/mnt/sth# ls
> aze  lost+found  music
> sarah:/mnt/sth# cat aze
> hello
> sarah:/mnt/sth# stat aze
>   File: `aze'
>   Size: 6               Blocks: 8          IO Block: 4096   fichier
> régulier
> Device: 811h/2065d      Inode: 12          Links: 1
> Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    root)
> Access: 2007-11-25 15:35:43.000000000 +0100
> Modify: 2007-11-25 15:35:41.000000000 +0100
> Change: 2007-11-25 15:35:41.000000000 +0100
> sarah:/mnt/sth# stat music
>   File: `music'
>   Size: 4096            Blocks: 8          IO Block: 4096   répertoire
> Device: 811h/2065d      Inode: 8503297     Links: 2
> Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    root)
> Access: 2007-11-25 15:34:53.000000000 +0100
> Modify: 2007-11-25 15:34:53.000000000 +0100
> Change: 2007-11-25 15:34:53.000000000 +0100
> sarah:/mnt/sth# 
> 
> freebsd :
> lisa# mount -t ext2fs /dev/da0s1 /home/lisa/partage/clean/
> lisa# cd /home/lisa/partage/clean
> lisa# ls
> lisa# stat music         
> 93 8503297 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 17008640 4096 "Nov 25 15:34:53 2007"
> "Nov 25 15:34:53 2007" "Nov 25 15:34:53 2007" "Jan  6 05:21:28 1947"
> 4096 8 0 music
> lisa# stat aze
> 93 12 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 18432 6 "Nov 25 15:35:43 2007" "Nov 25
> 15:35:41 2007" "Nov 25 15:35:41 2007" "Dec 29 22:08:24 1946" 4096 8 0
> aze
> lisa# cat aze
> lisa#
> 
> You can notice that there are no problems with inode, neither with the
> size, just with the date (what's this "Dec 29 22:08:24 1946" doing
> here ?!!)
> 
> any suggestion ?
> 
> cheers,
> matthieu.
> 

This may be totally off the mark, but ISTR having a more convivial mix (FreeBSD 
4, 6, DFLY, Linux, Plan9) if I prepped and sliced the drives with FreeBSD 4.X, 
not anything later.

I suspect that each player is more sympatico with the other-guy's 'legacy' 
environment than they are with anything newer.

YMMV,

Bill