Mac OSX file system support

On Wed, 07 Jun 2006 08:10:17 -0600, Douglas Mayne staggered into the Black Sun and said:

Yes, but HFS != HFS+ . Most OS X machines are using HFS+, although it may show up as the "openstep" variant of UFS. Or not. I don't have an HFS+ disk around right now, so I can't really check. HFS+ *should* be supported as well, but there's nothing in the man page for mount about -t hfsplus . Maybe you'd need to install and use the hfsplusutils package. I don't know. (Grr... why'd I format my iPod mini as FAT?)

Also, stork, if the disk was parbreastioned on a Mac, you *may* need to have MacOS parbreastion support compiled into your kernel. Stock kernels for the x86 typically don't have that option set to Y. If you plug the disk in, and your kernel doesn't report any parbreastions on the disk, you need to build MacOS parbreastion support and reboot with your new kernel.

Not necessary; "mount -t hfsdev-whatevermnt-somewhere" will do that automagically. In fact, I'd suggest leaving the -t option off mount once you've figured out which parbreastion you need to mount. mount is pretty good at figuring out filesystem types, though it may need the ufstype= option if the thing's UFS. HTH,

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