[Discuss] HFS+ access?

[Patrick]

On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 00:13:11 -0700
"R. Langkamer" wrote:

> On 8/7/07 11:46 PM, Patrick wrote:
> 
[...stuff about HFS+...]
> 
> 
> 	HFS+ is accessible in Linux with one caveat. If the HFS+ volume has 
> journaling enabled, it *must* be disabled first before you try to access 
> it in Linux. I have a 7 year old PowerBook set to dual boot Ubuntu and 
> anytime I want write access to my HFS+ partitions, I have to disable 
> journaling first.

Formatted by SilverLining under MacOS 9, so I don't think there's
any journaling involved.  But now that it's plugged into the Mac
again, I seem to have two very sick HFS+ partitions...

Okay, there are a few unusual things about this setup, so I can't
point to any one thing that went wrong.  Partitions formatted by
3rd party software?  Okay, maybe that's the problem [although the
Mac OS never complained about it].  Funky PCMCIA FireWire card?
Maybe, but it seems unlikely, since the HFS stuff wasn't
affected.  Beta-quality HFS+ tools?  Possible.

Oh well.

> 	One final note, I do not have access to any IBM's (Intel Based Macs) so 
> I can not test the new GUID partition format in Linux. This may or may 
> not throw a wrench in your access plans.

I doubt it.  Right now my access plans involve fixing the
catalogue, b-tree, extents b-tree, etc, as much as I can.  After
that, well, I've got ethernet.  Guess I can just FTP the stuff
straight across, then reformat the drive, probably split it into
a few 20gb ext2 partitions or something...



Hmmm,

Patrick.

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