On Apr 20, 2008, at 11:17 AM, Qiangning Hong wrote:
Hi all
I've got a Macbook Pro running Leopard and am installing Gentoo Prefix
on it. When i read the doc about a case-sensitive file system is
assumed, I checked and found that my file system is case-insensitive.
I googled and found it is time-consume to convert the file system
(backup the whole system, reformat, reinstall os and restore the
backup). So here I have two questions:
1. If I don't convert, how many/what packages would break? If they
are not essential and I don't need them, I would rather live with the
current file system.
2. Can I re-partition my hard driver and create a case sensitive
volume without reformat the whole disk? I know Disk Utility can
shrink the partition and create a new one in the free space, but I
failed to find out how to specify the new partition as a
case-sensitive one.
Thanks!
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I run a MacBook Pro as well. I found that you can just create a
sparse image with a case sensitive filesystem and use that for prefix
portage.
John
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