From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 3 23:38:20 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EF0E16A403 for ; Wed, 3 May 2006 23:38:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@amadeus.demon.nl) Received: from post-22.mail.nl.demon.net (post-22.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.192]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C101643D46 for ; Wed, 3 May 2006 23:38:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@amadeus.demon.nl) Received: from amadeus.demon.nl ([82.161.18.200]:58489 helo=[10.0.1.2]) by post-22.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1FbQvC-000HwX-5a; Wed, 03 May 2006 23:38:18 +0000 In-Reply-To: <1146317292.827.26.camel@localhost.savola.com> References: <1146313468.827.22.camel@localhost.savola.com> <445365E7.9080201@gmail.com> <1146317292.827.26.camel@localhost.savola.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v749.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <89C63FBE-9846-4E56-BA09-0B720A9CD79F@amadeus.demon.nl> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: FreeBSD mailing list Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 01:38:17 +0200 To: yraffah@savola.com X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.749.3) Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 and Mac File System X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 23:38:20 -0000 On 29 apr 2006, at 15:28, Yousef Raffah wrote: > On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 09:11 -0400, John Cruz wrote: >> I don't know about HFS, but you can format your mac drives with >> UFS when >> you do a clean install of MacOS, at least then FreeBSD would be >> able to >> read them. >> > You are right but this isn't my case here :(, I have an external HD > which has HFS(+) file system on it and I want to use it with my > FreeBSD > 6.1-RC1 > > Any chances? Mac OSX can't be installed onto a UFS formatted drive as far as I know Most OSX programs won't run on it either you can format partitions or drives other than the system drive with UFS not only at the installtion > >> Yousef Raffah wrote: >>> What is the status of reading/writing to Mac's file system (HFS) >>> or is >>> it HFS+? it is HFS+ for Mac OS 8.1 and later >>> Are they supported in FreeBSD 6.0? How about 6.1-RC? Can we >>> write to that file system or only read at moment? Is it safe? I'm >>> trying >>> to find something in the /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/NOTES file but >>> nothing >>> is promising so far >>> http://people.freebsd.org/~yar/hfs/ add this to your kernelconfig file: option GEOM_APPLE # Apple HFS+ support I was able to compile it on FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE-p6 but haven't had the time to check if it actually works. google for iPod and FreeBSD for more info :) Arno