From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 12 14:07:09 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FAB416A4CE; Wed, 12 Jan 2005 14:07:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from otter3.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C186443D2F; Wed, 12 Jan 2005 14:07:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [10.177.171.220] (neutrino.centtech.com [10.177.171.220]) by otter3.centtech.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id j0CE76OJ056191; Wed, 12 Jan 2005 08:07:06 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <41E52F04.4030001@centtech.com> Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 08:07:00 -0600 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041110 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Timothy Luoma References: <1050E60D-645E-11D9-87A5-000D93AD26C8@tntluoma.com> In-Reply-To: <1050E60D-645E-11D9-87A5-000D93AD26C8@tntluoma.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-firewire@freebsd.org cc: FreeBSD-Questions Questions Subject: Re: How dangerous is HFS+ in FreeBSD 5.3? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 14:07:09 -0000 Timothy Luoma wrote: > > I have an external 60GB Firewire drive currently (stupidly) formatted in > HFS+ (Mac OS X "Extended"). I'd like to get all the files off of the > drive and onto my FreeBSD machine (which has firewire card installed, > although I've yet to try and tackle mounting it). > > http://people.freebsd.org/~yar/hfs/ was the place to turn, but there are > several very ominous warnings about using it for important data. I was > curious as to whether this was just one of those "cover your behind" > disclaimers or a "really, don't use this for anything important" > disclaimers. If you are simply recovering your mp3's^H^H^H^H^Hdata, then just mount it read only, copy data, unmount.. After the copy, who cares if it trashes it? Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology I have seen the future and it is just like the present, only longer. ------------------------------------------------------------------------