On 2/2/21 8:15 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > As I explained, from the installer's point of view, hfsprogs is more straight- > forward because it use the same command line interface as all the other > filesystem > utilities, so that "mkfs -t hfs" works. > > hfsutils uses "hformat $DEVICE" while hfsprogs uses mkfs.hfs $DEVICE.
I just made a simple test by symlinking /sbin/mkfs.hfs to /usr/bin/hformat and tried "mkfs -t hfs" which doesn't work: root@z6:~> mkfs -t hfs /dev/sdl2 mkfs.hfs: Unknown operation `mkfs.hfs' root@z6:~> We could try re-adding HFS Legacy support to hfsprogs [1] which should be feasible as well. Adrian > [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=973911 -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
