Re: Mac fs

Thanks for the feedback, Bob. fgd.

Tofu45 wrote:
> 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
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> 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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