At 11:29 AM -0700 12/18/2008, Doug McNutt wrote: >At 11:52 -0500 12/18/08, Dan wrote: >>At 8:40 AM -0800 12/18/2008, gifutiger wrote: >>> >>>I would like to reformat my HD's for Case Sensitive operation and I'm >>>wondering if anyone knows if I will have problems when I reinstall OS >>>X 10.5 >> >>Yes, you will have horrible problems. Too many things are case >>insensitive in OS X. Stick with normal HFS+ Journaled. >> >>Why do you need case sensitivity? > >I find case sensitivity important. I work with a BSD UNIX server that >I have no control over and it just IS case sensitive. HTML pages and >scripts for filtering spam need to get tested locally before I use >them on the host machine. > >What I do is create a case sensitive partition, actually a second >disk, in OS 10.3.9. The OS remains on the main partition but I can >put project and test files on the case sensitive partition and all >works well.
Creating a secondary volume for testing is quite different than running the OS from it... - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
