Re: Sharing an hfsplus partition between Linux and MacOSX

[Marco Chiarandini <marco@imada.sdu.dk>]

Thank you a lot for the indications.
I solved as you suggested by alligning the ids between the two systems.

Regards


Am 14.11.2005 um 22:23 schrieb Eddy Petrisor:

> 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.