Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 08:07:00 -0600 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: Timothy Luoma <lists@tntluoma.com> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How dangerous is HFS+ in FreeBSD 5.3? Message-ID: <41E52F04.4030001@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <1050E60D-645E-11D9-87A5-000D93AD26C8@tntluoma.com> References: <1050E60D-645E-11D9-87A5-000D93AD26C8@tntluoma.com>
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Timothy Luoma wrote: > > I have an external 60GB Firewire drive currently (stupidly) formatted in > HFS+ (Mac OS X "Extended"). I'd like to get all the files off of the > drive and onto my FreeBSD machine (which has firewire card installed, > although I've yet to try and tackle mounting it). > > http://people.freebsd.org/~yar/hfs/ was the place to turn, but there are > several very ominous warnings about using it for important data. I was > curious as to whether this was just one of those "cover your behind" > disclaimers or a "really, don't use this for anything important" > disclaimers. If you are simply recovering your mp3's^H^H^H^H^Hdata, then just mount it read only, copy data, unmount.. After the copy, who cares if it trashes it? Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology I have seen the future and it is just like the present, only longer. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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