Subject: Re: filesystem size vs. physical size
From: JCS (chris526@earthlink.net)
Date: Mon Oct 11 1999 - 18:07:29 MDT
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From: Jim Cole <greyleaf@yggdrasill.net>
To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
Subject: Re: filesystem size vs. physical size
Date: Mon, Oct 11, 1999, 6:41 PM
>> I reformatted my 4GB hard disk.
>> Partition 5 is HFS+ (is this the problem?)
> This shouldn't be a problem, at least it wasn't on my machine.
>
>> Partition 6 is HFS (with small system + BootX to boot into YDL)
> I just put my kernel and BootX stuff on my first (HFS+) partition
> and left a small second partition (HFS) for transferring files.
>
>> Will the problems go away if I reformat hda and make all my partitions HFS?
> I set up all of my partitions from the Mac side before starting the install.
> This included 1 HFS+ partition for MacOS/boot files and 3 HFS partitions
> (transfer, root, and swap). Then I just selected pre-existing partitions
> during the install.
Which kernel are you using? I thought that HFS+ was not yet supported. Is it
just that an HFS+ (Extended format) partition cannot yet be mounted under
Linux?
I started by creating two HFS partitions with the Mac Drive Setup utility -
4GB for MacOS/boot files and 2GB for Linux. Then using fdisk during the
install, I created a root partition and a swap partition with the 2GB HFS
partition. But using HFS for the 4GB Mac partition is very inefficient and I
would much rather use HFS+. Would I be able to use HFS+ for the 4GB Mac
partition and BootX?
I am assuming that you use the HFS transfer partition to transfer files
between MacOS and Linux. Is this right? If I use an HFS+ partition for my
MacOS then would I need a small HFS partition for file transfer?
Thanks,
Chris
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