Re: Mac fs

Thanks for all the input.

One option was to partition the HD from a MAC with its fs.
Seemed like some problems with interchangeability there.

Since my main box is running varieties of Debian on intel, I partitioned the
USB drive with cfdisk using 0C for a vfat partition.
installed dosfstools and ran mkdosfs /dev/sda2.
The 1st MAC in question can read and write those files. Resource forks hang
out as directories but seem to work okay.
This system works for backing up data and since there are install cds for the
MAC that's all that's needed.
    Again thanks for the help,

              Bob Pelz Tofu45
Tofu: = compressed soy bean curd.....we are having Turkey for thanksgiving..
the regular fowl kind!

On Sunday 20 November 2005 09:43 am, Jim Gribbin wrote:
> Bob,
>
> This may help.
>
>
> http://www.opensuse.org/PPC_Partitioning
>
>
> Jim
>
> Fielder George Dowding wrote:
> >Hi Tofu45.
> >
> >I imagine the drive is already formatted for some flavor of vfat. Linux
> >will read vfat, so before you do anything, try it on the Mac. If it
> >works, try it on your Linux box. Even though I like a robust,
> >journaling, free (as in freedom) file system, I have used thumb drives
> >with whatever vfat type formatting to transfer files between Windows
> >boxen and my Linux boxen.
> >
> >If you do need to partition the usb drive (not recommended I
> >understand), then cfdisk will do the partitioning, but you will need to
> >use the formatting utility mkfs (and progeny). There is the badblock
> >utility and a bunch of other stuff, so Bob, it looks like you have some
> >man page reading to do. fgd.
> >
> >Tofu45 wrote:
> >>I have a usb drive I want to use to back up my wife's Mac OS 9.xx.
> >>Is there a utility to format the disk: something like cfdisk? Prefer to
> >>partition part of the disk for her (Mac fs) and part for linux.
> >>
> >>That OS seems to read windows floppies ok. What about a vfat type
> >> partition? If so, which of the cfdisk fs types work best as vfat. There
> >> is a bewildering array of FATs in there.
> >>
> >>Google didn't clarify it for me.
> >>What experience out there?
> >>
> >> Bob Pelz
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