On Oct 17, 2014, at 6:22 AM, René J.V. Bertin <[email protected]> wrote:
> It's been a while since I checked, but isn't it possible to go from the one
> to the other by swapping a switch with the right tool, without needing to
> reformat the whole partition?
I have never heard of such a thing.
> (As to HFSX vs HFS: I don't think that's what defines case-sensitivity, but
> the HFSX term has been used a little to carelessly to be sure).
Everything I've seen suggests that the "X" does signify case-sensitivity. It's
confusing, if nothing else.
% diskutil listFilesystems
Formattable file systems
These file system personalities can be used for erasing and
partitioning. When specifying a personality as a parameter to a verb,
case is not considered. Certain common aliases (also case-insensitive)
are listed below as well.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
PERSONALITY USER VISIBLE NAME
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
ExFAT ExFAT
Free Space Free Space
(or) free
MS-DOS MS-DOS (FAT)
MS-DOS FAT12 MS-DOS (FAT12)
MS-DOS FAT16 MS-DOS (FAT16)
MS-DOS FAT32 MS-DOS (FAT32)
(or) fat32
HFS+ Mac OS Extended
Case-sensitive HFS+ Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive)
(or) hfsx
Case-sensitive Journaled HFS+ Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled)
(or) jhfsx
Journaled HFS+ Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
(or) jhfs+
%
> In any case, you won't trash anything by converting a fs to case-sensitive,
> it's the opposite step that can lead to aliasing.
I meant "trash" in the sense of trying something like "rm Foo" for laughs,
thinking that a file "foo" would be safe. (Obviously, on HFS+, you couldn't
actually have two files "foo" and "Foo".)
vq
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