Hello Johannes! On 2/2/21 7:51 PM, Johannes Brakensiek wrote: >> On a sidenote: This variant has the huge advantage that the partioning tool >> in debian-installer takes care of setting up the HFS+ partition and making >> sure nothing gets overwritten etc. >> >> This is something that we would have to do manually in case we can't use >> hfsprogs - unless we hack the hfsutils package. > > I just joined this list, but for me everything seems to vote for this > solution. > All tools are already there and a blessed partition will provide a huge gain > considering user experience.[1] I don’t see any advantage in using HFS+ for a > 2MB partition that’s not used for anything else. Do you?
As I explained, from the installer's point of view, hfsprogs is more straight- forward because it use the same command line interface as all the other filesystem utilities, so that "mkfs -t hfs" works. hfsutils uses "hformat $DEVICE" while hfsprogs uses mkfs.hfs $DEVICE. Either way, it will require quite some testing and research. > [1] It also means you can choose that partition as boot partition from the > preference > pane of Mac OS X, doesn’t it? Yes. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - [email protected] `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - [email protected] `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
