Re: converting old style ufs to ext2

2004-10-17 Thread Aaron Hall
On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, Derrick Hudson wrote: Note that in moving files from the Mac fs (UFS is old Macintosh, isn't it?) that you may need to set UNIX properties on the ext2 system such as owner and permission bits because, AFAIK, the Mac fs doesn't store that sort of information. Not quite. UFS seem

Re: converting old style ufs to ext2

2004-10-17 Thread Aaron Hall
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Marc Jackson wrote: I've connected a "j-bod" with to an Alpha running the latest stable release of Debian linux. I can mount the filesystems as "ufs" in /etc/fstab, but I can't write to them. In poking around, it seems as if there is no support for writing to UFS filesystems.

Re: converting old style ufs to ext2

2004-10-15 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 09:30:29 -0700, Marc Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I've connected a "j-bod" with to an Alpha running the latest stable > release of Debian linux. I can mount the filesystems as "ufs" in > /etc/fstab, but I can't write to them. > In poking around, it seems as

Re: converting old style ufs to ext2

2004-10-15 Thread Derrick Hudson
On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 09:30:29AM -0700, Marc Jackson wrote: | Hello, | | I've connected a "j-bod" with to an Alpha running the latest stable | release of Debian linux. I can mount the filesystems as "ufs" in | /etc/fstab, but I can't write to them. | In poking around, it seems as if there is no

converting old style ufs to ext2

2004-10-13 Thread Marc Jackson
Hello, I've connected a "j-bod" with to an Alpha running the latest stable release of Debian linux. I can mount the filesystems as "ufs" in /etc/fstab, but I can't write to them. In poking around, it seems as if there is no support for writing to UFS filesystems. Q1: is it possible to write to U