Re: Undeletable files on UDF formatted HD

2010-02-16 Thread Matthew Moore
On Tuesday 16 February 2010 4:27:51 am Jason Heeris wrote: > I'd go so far as to say that it's so undocumented as to be almost > completely unusable, but wading through the source gives me a hint as > to why it won't work — I *suspect* that it requires a partitioned > block device. IIRC not so lon

Re: Undeletable files on UDF formatted HD

2010-02-16 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:26:05 +0800, Jason Heeris wrote: >> ¿NTFS? It should fit some of your requirements (works on windows, linux >> and MacOS -I think-) and allows ACL. > > It's not so much user ACL but the whole executable/read/write issue (I > get a bit sick of 100s of, eg. photos being marke

Re: Undeletable files on UDF formatted HD

2010-02-16 Thread Jason Heeris
> ¿NTFS? It should fit some of your requirements (works on windows, linux > and MacOS -I think-) and allows ACL. It's not so much user ACL but the whole executable/read/write issue (I get a bit sick of 100s of, eg. photos being marked executable, and having to manually sort it out) — does NTFS sup

Re: Undeletable files on UDF formatted HD

2010-02-16 Thread Jason Heeris
On 16 February 2010 18:08, Jason Heeris wrote: > On 16 February 2010 16:51, Camaleón wrote: >> Package "udftools" comes with "wrudf" which is decribes as: >> >> *** >> wrudf - Maintains a UDF filesystem (undocumented) >> *** > > Ah yes...  wow, it is quite undocumented, isn't it... Alas, I could

Re: Undeletable files on UDF formatted HD

2010-02-16 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:08:43 +0800, Jason Heeris wrote: > On 16 February 2010 16:51, Camaleón wrote: >> Package "udftools" comes with "wrudf" which is decribes as: >> >> *** >> wrudf - Maintains a UDF filesystem (undocumented) *** > > Ah yes... wow, it is quite undocumented, isn't it... Yes :-(

Re: Undeletable files on UDF formatted HD

2010-02-16 Thread Jason Heeris
On 16 February 2010 16:51, Camaleón wrote: > Package "udftools" comes with "wrudf" which is decribes as: > > *** > wrudf - Maintains a UDF filesystem (undocumented) > *** Ah yes... wow, it is quite undocumented, isn't it... > Not sure why you need a UDF filesystem :-?. I wanted: 1. A filesyste

Re: Undeletable files on UDF formatted HD

2010-02-16 Thread Pier Paolo
WD passport series hd: i have a tera one and my friend a small mypassport 320gb; either with this fucking udf thing that has to be a firmware thing, providing some backup and crypting stuff, not very useful, not useful at all in linux. debian see it as a udf cd filesystem and optionally mount it ac

Re: Undeletable files on UDF formatted HD

2010-02-16 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:10:18 +0800, Jason Heeris wrote: (...) > Are there any tools to repair the filesystem? I couldn't find any UDF > fsck, but maybe someone here knows of something? Package "udftools" comes with "wrudf" which is decribes as: *** wrudf - Maintains a UDF filesystem (undocumen

Undeletable files on UDF formatted HD

2010-02-15 Thread Jason Heeris
Hi, I have an external (USB, bus powered) hard drive formatted as UDF (using "mkudffs --media-type=hd"). There is no partitioning on the device, and I zeroed the whole thing before initialising the UDF FS. I was writing data to it from Mac OS X when the machine ran out of batteries, leaving some