From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 13 20:33:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA12925 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 13 Jan 1998 20:33:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from colin.muc.de (root@colin.muc.de [193.174.4.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA12910 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 1998 20:33:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lutz@muc.de) Received: from tavari.muc.de ([193.174.4.22]) by colin.muc.de with SMTP id <86034-1>; Tue, 13 Jan 1998 06:42:51 +0100 Received: from morranon.tavari.muc.de (morranon [192.168.42.3]) by tavari.muc.de (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA23837; Tue, 13 Jan 1998 06:40:19 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199801122122.NAA00294@gromit.pinpt.com> Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 06:40:18 +0100 Reply-To: Lutz Albers From: Lutz Albers To: "Sean J. Schluntz" Subject: Re: Mac File system and FreeBSD Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id UAA12912 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On 12-Jan-98 Sean J. Schluntz wrote: > *From the fingers of Lutz Albers >>>>I'm wouldn't going that route. Maybe you should try using vmount (a >>>>utility which uses the Linux fs code via an nfs loopback mount). >>>>Use >>>>a >>>>vfat (urgh .. :-( partition for the data. >> >>I don't think that you can mount MacFS partitions, there is just a >>program giving access. > > Urk, I think you're right. For some reason I though FreeBSD could > mount > HFS but now that you mention it I can't find where I saw that. > > So, you mentioned something that sounded painful ;) How would you > suggest I make it so that my NT system and my FreeBSD system can > share a > space with long file names? (People have to have run in to this at > some > point or another?) My own suggestion on sharing space between different OS's would be a separate file server (I tried sharing between FreeBSD and OS/2 before). If that isn't possible, then use the VFAT route, which does support long file names. ciao lutz -- Lutz Albers, lutz@muc.de Do not take life too seriously, you will never get out of it alive.