Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 01:38:17 +0200 From: FreeBSD mailing list <freebsd@amadeus.demon.nl> To: yraffah@savola.com Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 and Mac File System Message-ID: <89C63FBE-9846-4E56-BA09-0B720A9CD79F@amadeus.demon.nl> In-Reply-To: <1146317292.827.26.camel@localhost.savola.com> References: <1146313468.827.22.camel@localhost.savola.com> <445365E7.9080201@gmail.com> <1146317292.827.26.camel@localhost.savola.com>
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On 29 apr 2006, at 15:28, Yousef Raffah wrote: > On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 09:11 -0400, John Cruz wrote: >> I don't know about HFS, but you can format your mac drives with >> UFS when >> you do a clean install of MacOS, at least then FreeBSD would be >> able to >> read them. >> > You are right but this isn't my case here :(, I have an external HD > which has HFS(+) file system on it and I want to use it with my > FreeBSD > 6.1-RC1 > > Any chances? Mac OSX can't be installed onto a UFS formatted drive as far as I know Most OSX programs won't run on it either you can format partitions or drives other than the system drive with UFS not only at the installtion > >> Yousef Raffah wrote: >>> What is the status of reading/writing to Mac's file system (HFS) >>> or is >>> it HFS+? it is HFS+ for Mac OS 8.1 and later >>> Are they supported in FreeBSD 6.0? How about 6.1-RC? Can we >>> write to that file system or only read at moment? Is it safe? I'm >>> trying >>> to find something in the /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/NOTES file but >>> nothing >>> is promising so far >>> http://people.freebsd.org/~yar/hfs/ add this to your kernelconfig file: option GEOM_APPLE # Apple HFS+ support I was able to compile it on FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE-p6 but haven't had the time to check if it actually works. google for iPod and FreeBSD for more info :) Arno
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