Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 04:19:05 -0500 From: Craig St Jean <valiantsoul@earthlink.net> To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: using hfs with freebsd 6 Message-ID: <E6E270FE-B8F5-4C55-892C-6D2EC2AC92CA@earthlink.net>
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> I have a few questions about using HFS+ with FreeBSD 6.0-stable. > > - what's the recommended utility/utilities to use for handling HFS+ > partitions? I've been looking at the hfsutils port > (ports/emulators/hfsutils) as well as an hfs project found here: > http://people.freebsd.org/~yar/hfs/ . > - does anyone know if any of the HFS utilities support having an HFS+ > partition on a disk with a dos-compatible partition table? > > What I'm trying to do is mount an HFS+ partition from a usb-drive. > The > disk was created using my mac, and was created so that (while using an > hfs driver for windows called macdrive6) I can access the drive from > both my mac & my windows system. I'd like to use the drive in my > FreeBSD system as well, hence my curiousity about the above. > > If I attach the drive to my system, I get /dev/da1 /dev/da1s1 and > /dev/da1s2. s1 is the HFS+ partition, and s2 is a fat32 formatted > partition. > I've attempted using the hfsutils port and running hmount, and > received > the following error: > # hmount /dev/da1s1 > hmount: /dev/da1s1: not a Macintosh HFS volume (Invalid argument) > > Using the mount_hfs command from the programs found on > http://people.freebsd.org/~yar/hfs/ i was able to execute mount > with the > following error as well: > # mount -t hfs /dev/da1s1 /mnt > mount_hfs: /dev/da1s1: No such file or directory This failed because you must first install the kernel module and userland software from that page. The no such file was regarding mount_hfs. As far as if that is the best option - I do not know. > > I may be trying something rather unusual, but I'd like to get it > working. > > Thanks, > -Joe
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