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Consider supporting APFS #51
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Thank You for pointing my eyes on this. As I already support HFS I was not aware that its now possible to mount APFS on FreeBSD. Expect Regards, |
Seems not to work very well ... I personally created new APFS filesystem on a apfs.dmg file on a Mac - then transferred to my FreeBSD machine. These are the results of using libfsapfs package.
Does it behaves the same on your side? Regards, |
Were you using APFS version 1 or 2? According to https://github.com/libyal/libfsapfs/wiki, only version 2 and certain features of it are supported. |
Send me please version '2' or give me the instructions to create it. Thanks in advance. |
Apparently one cannot directly format a regular file with APFS2. APFS (Apple File System) is designed to be used on block devices like hard drives and SSDs, and not on regular files. APFS version 2 is the default filesystem version for macOS 10.13 and iOS 10.3 and above, hence it will be automatically chosen when creating a new APFS filesystem. To format a USB stick with the APFS2 file system, one can most likely approximately use the following procedure (unfortunately my Macs don't run a recent enough version of macOS so I couldn't test):
Please note that formatting the USB stick will erase all data stored on it, so make sure to back up any important files before proceeding. |
I used 'file' for the APFS filesystem creation - does the instruction differ for a file? |
I would assume it puts the APFS into a UDIF file then, which libfsapfs may not be able to read. |
Possibly. |
Please consider supporting APFS (the filesystem used on macOS nowadays).
https://www.freshports.org/devel/libfsapfs/ contains a library and tools (especially
fsapfsmount
) to access the Apple File System (APFS).The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: