[nmglug] A little off Linux but...

[BrianO'Keefe]

thanks for the reply Sam. I checked the lists and it didn't look too
helpful. I may take the drive to my old Mac support here in town and see
if they can access the partition I need.
I partitioned and formatted the drive in question as well as another
that I use only for Linux using Mac's Disk Utility. I didn't think there
would be a problem because I thought Linux supported HFS, or vice versa.
Your feelings would certainly explain why the partitions were always
doing weird things like changing names (happened twice) or sometimes
having RW permissions and at other times not.
An interesting thing is that I can access my Laptop's OS X partition
from Ubuntu witha little script and that has never been a problem and
has been very handy. Likewise I can access the Linux partition from OS X
with a nice little piece of software I added to my OS X System Preferences.
My head hurts!

Sam Noble wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 14:15 -0600, BrianO'Keefe wrote:
>   
>> I can see the files either as root or me but they cannot be accessed
>> in
>> either without getting error messages. In Nautilus the icons are
>> correct
>> and look OK, the dates, sizes, etc. are fine too but they do not open.
>> These aren't permission denied errors. In nautilus they morph into
>> text
>> files as opposed to PDF, for instance, and in Gnome-Commander as root
>> I
>> get an "Unable to open file (error3)".
>> Trying to copy gives an "Unable to copy" error (as root).
>> I'll try changing the permissions after I get a response (hopefully).
>> I
>> know it's weird but it's what I've got! 
>>     
>
> Yuck, when I was trying to use hpmount, it was because the hfs+
> partition was showing up as being mounted rw, but all access would
> return errors as though the partition was mounted ro. In other words,
> tools that I normally trust were giving me incorrect output. This seems
> like a potential cause for some of the confusing issues that you've had
> with file systems, disk usage etc. I've not looked into it, (because I'm
> an extX only file system bigot :) Are you on any PowerPC-mac lists?
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/
> https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=linux-hfsplus-devel
>
> I just googled those up, and the scary part is how dead the HFS+ devel
> list is. (maybe the development is in tree now and I should be searching
> LKML?) These issues may be widespread, and folks on this list (myself at
> least) may have given you bad advice in the case that hfs+ is busticated
> when you use normal mount and friends.
> scary.
>
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