Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Sat, 6 May 2006 16:29:38 +0000
From:      Hunter Fuller <hackmiester@hackmiester.com>
To:        FreeBSD mailing list <freebsd@amadeus.demon.nl>
Cc:        yraffah@savola.com, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 6.0 and Mac File System
Message-ID:  <29CE996F-4CE9-4F1B-B8FB-A9982769BA71@hackmiester.com>
In-Reply-To: <89C63FBE-9846-4E56-BA09-0B720A9CD79F@amadeus.demon.nl>
References:  <1146313468.827.22.camel@localhost.savola.com> <445365E7.9080201@gmail.com> <1146317292.827.26.camel@localhost.savola.com> <89C63FBE-9846-4E56-BA09-0B720A9CD79F@amadeus.demon.nl>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help

On  03 May 2006, at 11:38 PM, FreeBSD mailing list wrote:

>
> On 29 apr 2006, at 15:28, Yousef Raffah wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 09:11 -0400, John Cruz wrote:
>>> I don't know about HFS, but you can format your mac drives with  
>>> UFS when
>>> you do a clean install of MacOS, at least then FreeBSD would be  
>>> able to
>>> read them.
>>>
>> You are right but this isn't my case here :(, I have an external HD
>> which has HFS(+) file system on it and I want to use it with my  
>> FreeBSD
>> 6.1-RC1
>>
>> Any chances?
>
> Mac OSX can't be installed onto a UFS formatted drive as far as I know
Yeah, it can.

> Most OSX programs won't run on it either
> you can format partitions or drives other than the system drive  
> with UFS not only at the installtion
>
>>
>>> Yousef Raffah wrote:
>>>> What is the status of reading/writing to Mac's file system (HFS)  
>>>> or is
>>>> it HFS+?
>
> it is HFS+ for Mac OS 8.1 and later
>
>>>> Are they supported in FreeBSD 6.0? How about 6.1-RC? Can we
>>>> write to that file system or only read at moment? Is it safe?  
>>>> I'm trying
>>>> to find something in the /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/NOTES file but  
>>>> nothing
>>>> is promising so far
>>>>
>
> http://people.freebsd.org/~yar/hfs/
>
> add this to your kernelconfig file:
> option          GEOM_APPLE      # Apple HFS+ support
>
> I was able to compile it on FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE-p6 but haven't had  
> the time to check if it actually works.
>
>
> google for iPod and FreeBSD for more info :)
>
> Arno
> _______________________________________________
> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list
> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions
> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions- 
> unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
>




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?29CE996F-4CE9-4F1B-B8FB-A9982769BA71>