From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 12 20:32:42 2005 Return-Path: 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 16E7816A4CE; Wed, 12 Jan 2005 20:32:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.mi.celestial.com (dagney.celestial.com [192.136.111.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9D1E43D2D; Wed, 12 Jan 2005 20:32:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bill@celestial.com) Received: by mail.mi.celestial.com (Postfix, from userid 203) id DE55011E8C8; Wed, 12 Jan 2005 12:32:40 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 12:32:40 -0800 From: Bill Campbell To: freebsd-firewire@freebsd.org, FreeBSD-Questions Questions Message-ID: <20050112203240.GA30500@alexis.mi.celestial.com> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-firewire@freebsd.org, FreeBSD-Questions Questions References: <1050E60D-645E-11D9-87A5-000D93AD26C8@tntluoma.com> <41E52F04.4030001@centtech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Subject: Re: How dangerous is HFS+ in FreeBSD 5.3? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd@celestial.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 20:32:42 -0000 On Wed, Jan 12, 2005, Timothy Luoma wrote: > >On Jan 12, 2005, at 9:07 AM, Eric Anderson wrote: > >>If you are simply recovering your mp3's^H^H^H^H^Hdata, > >Heh... actually my iPod is FAT32 because I had it with Windows before I >had a Mac. > >>then just mount it read only, copy data, unmount.. After the copy, who >>cares if it trashes it? > >yeah, read only is a good idea. > >I decided that rather than messing with HFS+ in FreeBSD (when I'll >likely never use it again), I would just enable FTP on FreeBSD and >upload the files. It'll take a little longer to do the copy, but I can >do it right now and work on other things while it is running, rather >than having to learn how to enable HFS+ (which would be good to know, >but I've got a lot of other things pressing at the moment, so saving a >bit of time today is good). I was going to suggest ftp, rsync, scp, or some other network transfer. >I guess the next question is figuring out what filesystem to use on the >drive once all the data I want/need is off of it. The external firewire drives on all our Macs, and at least half the available space on their internal hard drives is partitioned with UFS file systems. Originally I did this to avoid the OS X case insensitivity which bit me in the butt within an hour of my first porting efforts. Bill -- INTERNET: bill@Celestial.COM Bill Campbell; Celestial Systems, Inc. UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ Memoirs -- Bill Clinton is getting $12 million for his memoirs, and his wife Hillary got $8 million for hers. That's $20 million for memories from two people who for eight years repeatedly testified they couldn't remember anything.