Re: Tool for blessing HFS+ filesystems required

["Johannes Brakensiek" <letterus@gnustep.app>]

Hello Adrian,

thank you for your work and your approach towards fixing this issue.

On 2 Feb 2021, at 16:41, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:

> On 2/2/21 4:24 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>
> > In order to solve this issue, we have a couple of options:
> >
> > - Use HFS instead of HFS+ and use the old hformat utility in 
> > grub-installer
>
>
> On a sidenote: This variant has the huge advantage that the partioning 
> tool
> in debian-installer takes care of setting up the HFS+ partition and 
> making
> sure nothing gets overwritten etc.
>
> This is something that we would have to do manually in case we can't 
> use
> hfsprogs - unless we hack the hfsutils package.

I just joined this list, but for me everything seems to vote for this 
solution. All tools are already there and a blessed partition will 
provide a huge gain considering user experience.[1] I don’t see any 
advantage in using HFS+ for a 2MB partition that’s not used for 
anything else. Do you?

Thanks again
Johannes


[1] It also means you can choose that partition as boot partition from 
the preference pane of Mac OS X, doesn’t it?