Re: hfs+ redux

[Kim Cascone <kim@anechoicmedia.com>]

On Sep 29, 2005, at 3:33 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> >
>
> Hosed, how so ?
it won't mount on the OS X machine nor does Disk Utils recognize it 
when I try to 'repair' it...

> what does Disk Utils says specifically ? I mount HFS+
> partitions regulary here without problems. However, make sure it's not
> journaled.
hmmmm...aren't both HFS+ and ext3 journaled filesystems by default?

>  Also, OS X has a new "HFSX" that may have issues with linux
> support, I haven't tried.
I don't have that option when formatting in DU/OS X

> I wonder if you are simply having firewire problems, difficult to 
> say...
I've tried this on two dual boot Apple boxes: a G3 iMac DV and a G3 
iBook 500MHz...when booted into Linux they both recognized the HFS 
drive but then when mounting that same drive on a machine in OS X it 
was unreadable...

> Do you see any error in linux dmesg ?
when I have the HFS+ drive mounted? I don't know I didn't so this...

> If not, I would recommend you send a detailed report to Roman Zippel
> <zippel@linux-m68k.org>, the linux HFS+ maintainer
OK I will do this...
thanks!
KIM