Re: partition

["Chris Tillman" <toff1@cox.net>]

On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 04:28:49PM -0500, emorfin@caracol.red.cinvestav.mx wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> my partition on my tibook disk:
> 
> /dev/hda
>         #                    type name                  length   base      ( size )  system
> dump: name /dev/hda len 8
> /dev/hda1     Apple_partition_map Apple                     63 @ 1         ( 31.5k)  Partition map
> /dev/hda2         Apple_Bootstrap bootstrap               1600 @ 64        (800.0k)  NewWorld bootblock
> /dev/hda3         Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap                  524288 @ 1664      (256.0M)  Linux swap
> /dev/hda4         Apple_UNIX_SVR2 root                25165824 @ 525952    ( 12.0G)  Linux native
> /dev/hda5         Apple_UNIX_SVR2 home                16395360 @ 25691776  (  7.8G)  Linux native
> /dev/hda6               Apple_HFS MacOSX              66524736 @ 42087136  ( 31.7G)  HFS
> /dev/hda7              Apple_Free Extra                8598368 @ 108611872 (  4.1G)  Free space
> 
> Block size=512, Number of Blocks=117210240
> DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0
> 
> as you can see, i have hda7 as free space.
> 
> I want to use it to share data.
> 
> What do you recomend? hfs or ufs?

HFS is supported by the kernel, but the max size is 2GB,
max number of files 32000.
 
> How can i do it?
 
Use mac-fdisk to create the partition(s), make it (them) type
Apple_HFS.  Then boot back to OSX to format it; and be sure to choose
regular old HFS, not 'Extended' which is hfsplus. There are some Linux
hfsplus utilities now, but not kernel support yet AFAIK.

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