[aklug] Re: Dual-boot for Mac any experiences

* David J. Weller-Fahy <dave+lists.aklug@caterva.org> [140325 11:04]:
> >http://www.markgreenall.co.uk/blog/Mount-Macbook-Disk-OSX--HFS-on-Ubuntu-1204-LTS-with-ReadWrite
> >I would create a small fat32 partition for moving data from ubuntu to the
> >mac partition.
> >
> >Does that sound like a good plan?
>
> The separate partition sounds like a good plan, but you may want to try
> HFS+ non-journaled for the separate partition, as noted here:
>
> http://superuser.com/questions/392702/which-file-system-to-use-in-between-osx-and-linux
>
> The reasons I'd recommend *not* using fat32 are permissions (doesn't
> retain) and file size limits (I got bit by the max file size once, it
> hurt).
>
> However, remember when creating the HFS+ non-journaled partition to
> select case-sensitivity, as otherwise you may get some surprising
> behavior (when transferring between OS X and linux). I would not turn
> on case-sensitivity in your primary OS-X partition, as I noticed some
> weird breakage in a few applications (notably Steam's client) which
> happened only when case-sensitivity was enabled on the primary
> partition.
>
> I think start out with whatever type of partition you want to try out,
> and see what works: that's the great thing about having an extra
> partition. ;)
  As per your instruction, made a partition of the external HD I use
  for Time Machine, set to HFS+ Journaling and Case-Sensitive, then
  disabled journaling - which is a bit tricky - I had to use a
  combination of the alt/option key with the mouse click.

  Seems to work....
  Thanks for much for the advice - it is greatly appreciated.
  cheers

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Tim 
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