> Consider that Disk Utility as well as OS X are designed to see hfs and > hfs+ partitions, not ext3 which is the formating partition used in > Linux. > > Suppose OS X does sense an external drive connected via firewire or USB > which is a Linux drive. OS X will ask you to mount it or a dialog box > will appear requesting whether it should be mounted or ignored. The > correct answer of course is that it should not be mounted and it should > be ignored.
Not certain if I missed anything in this thread, but there is an open-source driver for OSX which enables it to see ext3 partitions and auto-mount them. Makes OSX to YDL file sharing very simple. _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
