Hi,

being quite new to the Mac(OSX) world (coming from unix), I left
my ibook in the factory default setting, which is HFS+ filesystem.
It seems this is necessary in order for MacOS9 to be usable.

Now the thing that starts making problems - as I am trying to integrate
my ibook in an otherwise linux or SGI dominated environment - is that
the HFS+ filesystem has a lot of limitations, the most annoying one
being that capital letters are not distinguished from non-capital ones
(in the sense that you cannot have two files README and readme in the
same directory).
I agree that this should not happen very often, but it sometimes does,
and is creating some disfunction.

Now I wonder, whether using a UFS partition would fix this, and if it
is possible/advisable to change my current setup to one with either
a UFS instead of HFS+ partition (thus loosing on OS9 ?) or creating
a supplementary partition so that MacOSX/Fink can be separated,
or only creating this partition for my data ..

ANy hints and recommendations are taken thankfully,

Cheers,

  Marc Baaden

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