On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 23:14:19 -0500, Ron McDowell wrote: >Ted Roby wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Otto Moerbeek <o...@drijf.net> wrote: >> >> >>> I suspect the OP would like to dual boot his intel mac machine and >>> still have access from OpenBSD to the files stored on a hfsplus >>> partition. >>> >>> -Otto >>> >>> >> >> >> This is more in line with what I am seeking. >> I have a large amount of data which must be moved over from >> hfsplus to ffs. Since I am running -current, and seeking to assist >> with development, -my- solution was to invest in another large >> SATA drive, and attach via USB. I will format it with FAT32, copy >> all desired media from large hfsplus backup volume, boot to openbsd, >> copy all that data to internal FFS, reformat new drive FFS and use as >> backups. >> >> My desire, however, is to possibly give OpenBSD portable hfsplus >> access on i386 for future Mac migrators. >> > >A note of caution. I copied a bunch of stuff from an OSX 10.6 partition >to a FAT32 USB drive, and when looking at that FAT32 USB drive mounted >on an OpenBSD 4.7 system, any filenames that fit into the old DOS >8-character-dot-3-character naming convention got mapped to all >uppercase. Played hell with some of my source trees. :( > >I'm not sure if that happened on the OSX write to the FAT32 drive or on >the OpenBSD read from the drive... but it's not going to do what I want.
mount that stick on OpenBSD using "mount_msdos -l <device> <mountpoint> " and I'd bet you have no more problems. > >So yes, Ted, I'd like very much to be able to mount an intel Snow >Leopard hfs+ file system on OpenBSD. Maybe you won't need it now ;-) R/ *** NOTE *** Please DO NOT CC me. I <am> subscribed to the list. Mail to the sender address that does not originate at the list server is tarpitted. The reply-to: address is provided for those who feel compelled to reply off list. Thankyou. Rod/ --- This life is not the real thing. It is not even in Beta. If it was, then OpenBSD would already have a man page for it.