Re: Sharing an hfsplus partition between Linux and MacOSX

[Eddy Petrisor <eddy.petrisor@gmail.com>]

Marco Chiarandini wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> I just finished installing the kernel 2.6.14 with HFS and HFSPLUS
> modules built-in. To my understanding with this kernel it should be
> possibile to read and write on Mac HFS extended partitions.
>
> I verified that it is indeed possible but I can do this only with root
> permissions and not as a common user.
>
> Below my current fstab, although I tried already several other different
> ways to mount the partition. When mounted hfs partitions receives uid
> "501" and gid "dialout". Adding this group in /etc/group and the name of
> the user as member of the group does not solve the problem.

You can fix this by changing you uid from whatever is now to 501 and 
change the id of the dialout group not to overlap with the one that is 
the default in MAC OS X.

Mount the partition then under group (macosxwr, let's call it) and with 
the appropriate umask to allow the writing for the group.

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Regards,
EddyP
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