On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Ron McDowell <r...@fuzzwad.org> wrote: > Ted Roby wrote: >> >> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Otto Moerbeek <o...@drijf.net> wrote: >> >> >>> >>> I suspect the OP would like to dual boot his intel mac machine and >>> still have access from OpenBSD to the files stored on a hfsplus >>> partition. >>> >>> -Otto >>> >>> >> >> >> This is more in line with what I am seeking. >> I have a large amount of data which must be moved over from >> hfsplus to ffs. Since I am running -current, and seeking to assist >> with development, -my- solution was to invest in another large >> SATA drive, and attach via USB. I will format it with FAT32, copy >> all desired media from large hfsplus backup volume, boot to openbsd, >> copy all that data to internal FFS, reformat new drive FFS and use as >> backups. >> >> My desire, however, is to possibly give OpenBSD portable hfsplus >> access on i386 for future Mac migrators. >> > > A note of caution. I copied a bunch of stuff from an OSX 10.6 partition to > a FAT32 USB drive, and when looking at that FAT32 USB drive mounted on an > OpenBSD 4.7 system, any filenames that fit into the old DOS > 8-character-dot-3-character naming convention got mapped to all uppercase. > Played hell with some of my source trees. :(
learn to use tar(1). --patrick > I'm not sure if that happened on the OSX write to the FAT32 drive or on the > OpenBSD read from the drive... but it's not going to do what I want. > > So yes, Ted, I'd like very much to be able to mount an intel Snow Leopard > hfs+ file system on OpenBSD. > > -- > Ron McDowell > San Antonio TX
