From owner-freebsd-firewire@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 12 05:52:01 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-firewire@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A28216A4CE; Wed, 12 Jan 2005 05:52:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: from spatula.dreamhost.com (spatula.dreamhost.com [66.33.205.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4142F43D2D; Wed, 12 Jan 2005 05:52:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lists@tntluoma.com) Received: from [192.168.2.102] (user-33qt9b7.dialup.mindspring.com [199.174.165.103]) by spatula.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D96717D021; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 21:51:59 -0800 (PST) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <1050E60D-645E-11D9-87A5-000D93AD26C8@tntluoma.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Timothy Luoma Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 00:51:54 -0500 To: FreeBSD-Questions Questions X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) cc: freebsd-firewire@freebsd.org Subject: How dangerous is HFS+ in FreeBSD 5.3? X-BeenThere: freebsd-firewire@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Firewire support in FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 05:52:01 -0000 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. TjL