Dear nedcrap, On Mar 10, 2006, at 8:23 AM, ned wrote:
> I have two questions, that are only related by the > problems I've been having with a maxtor external hard > drive. > > One, I'm thinking of getting a mac, and would like to > know what linux file systems are compatible with mac. > My external hard drive is now using reiser, but I know > that mac doesn't support this. Out of curiosity, what > file system does osx use? UFS, HFS, HFS+, NFS as well as ext2 at http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsx/ (SMB is supported through samba.) > Also, will I be able to > listen to my ogg files with a mac? It works for me: http://www.xiph.org/quicktime/ I am also aware of at least one other Mac dude on this list. > > Two, I've been having problems with the hard drive. A > while ago several directories turned into flat files, > and ll returned a bunch of question marks as > permissions. Reiserfsck --check revealed problems and > advised running --rebuild-tree, but I didn't want to > because I don't have backups of most of my music. I > use the drive to back up my laptop, but I don't have > space on the laptop for all the music. Now the whole > music directory is fried, so I ran --rebuild-tree > twice (it took about 16 hrs each time for a 160g > drive) and it aborts after finishing the first pass > (pass 0), leaving the drive unmountable and me not > knowing what to do. I'm attaching the error message, > just in case. I'm assuming that I'm screwed and am > going to have to reformat; I think that there isn't > any possiblity of recovering the data. Any suggestions > for file systems? You can turn any old computter into an NFS or SMB server to serve out your musak, so the underlying filesystem is really irrelevant. If you plan on just using the drive with the new Mac, use HFS+. > > My hypothesis is that several times when the power was > turned off and then on at the circuit breaker, the > resulting charge was too much for the drive. Are > there any other possibilities? What can I do to keep > this from happening in the future? ON my list of > purchases is one of those surge protectors with > battery backup. Has anything else in your home been fried my iffy power? If the drive is genuinely fried, then throw it out. Before you do, reformat the drive, copy some odd-thousand files to the drive, run it for a week and see what happens. If the HD spins, doesn't make any strange sounds, and can actually read and write data, I would bet on the filesystem getting corrupted- an ailment reiserfs is well-known for- at least in the past. Which Linux distro were you using? Experimental or old reiserfs drivers could have certainly corrupted the fs. Only a fresh test of the HD will tell you. Good luck! -M ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ AgentM [EMAIL PROTECTED] ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
