Re: access to HFS disks
On Dec 31, Don Smith wrote:
> I've Slink running quite happily on an SE/30 and am able to mount and copy
> files from the Mac boot partition. However, when trying to copy files to
> this partition it fails, access denied. I thought it might be mounted read
> only, but the output from mount lists it as read/write.
>
> I've installed the hfs packages and similarly failed using xhfs.
>
> Suggestions?
Are you trying to copy the files as root? If not, you may not have
permissions to write to the HFS partition. The "uid" option to mount
may be necessary here.
> Also, on the same vein, although MSDOS is listed as a mountable file system,
> VFAT is not, yet VFAT is listed in the mount documentation as an accessible
> filesystem. I cannot find a package to support this? Have I missed one?
You don't need a special package. Just mount -t vfat /dev/whatever /mnt
Chris
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