Re: Yellowdog Linux on Mac drives: HFS, or HFS+ ?


Subject: Re: Yellowdog Linux on Mac drives: HFS, or HFS+ ?
From: Philippe Tapon (ptapon@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Oct 29 2000 - 19:06:00 MST


> >Wonder if I can mix HFS+ and HFS partitions on
> the same drive?
>
> I have mixed NTFS/FAT32/EXT2/LinuxSwap
> partitions all on one drive and it
> hasn't caused me any problems yet. It
> shouldn't really matter. (at least
> mixing PC filesystems it doesn't. can't help
> you much with macs)

Linux for Macs can mount, read, and write to an
HFS partition: but it can't mount or do much of
anything with an HFS+ partition, except boot. On
the other hand, Mac-On-Linux, the native-speed
emulator, can mount both HFS and HFS+ partitions.
 

peace

philippe

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