[RndTbl] Another followup to HFS+ partition on a USB drive

[Mike Pfaiffer]

On October 5, 2005 07:21 pm, Sydney Weidman wrote this amazing epistle:
> On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 13:13, Mike Pfaiffer wrote:
> >  Not a problem. Just a followup.
> >
> >  Last night I had a friend format the area I reserved for Mac stuff on
> > the hard drive. It was formatted HFS+. The Mac mounts it and the M$
> > partitions fine. The Mac sees the ext3 fs as a UFS (Unix File System)
> > drive and does not mount it. Linux doesn't see the HFS+ partition. The
> > hardware browser program in Fedora 2 says there is no file system on the
> > partition. I haven't tried it under M$ yet. Past experience says it will
> > only see the FAT32 partition.

 Hey Syd. Long time no see.

> if I remember correctly, the HFS+ filesystem would be recognized if you
> have the hfsplus module. modprobe hfsplus worked for me in FC3.

 I'm using FC2. Think it'll work there?

> I can't remember if it comes installed in FC3 by default or if I
> installed it by hand. It did work for viewing the contents of an iPod,
> however.

 I'll see if I can find an independent install of it. Does it also format 
disks as well?

> Regards,
> Syd

    Later
    Mike


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