Re: [Mactel-linux-users] sharing files between os x and linux

[Erik O. <er...@pl...>]

I have had a lot of success using HFS+ filesystems with the journal
disabled. You can actually turn journaling on and off in OS X using (I
think) diskutil, without having to create a new filesystem.

I have also heard that writing to HFS+ without turning the journal off
is the kiss of death.

I have a shared filesystems for music that I rip to from Linux
and from OS X which is HFS+. The files there seem fine. Obviously YMMV.

Good Luck,

-- Erik

On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 11:52:59AM -0500, Jon Grosshart wrote:
> On 3/14/07, Sheer El-Showk <sh...@gm...> wrote:
> >
> >Ideally I would like to have my files
> >on some partition that both OSes could safely read and write to.  I
> >would also like this to be a grown up file systems with permissions,
> >journaling, etc... so not VFAT.
> 
> 
> 
> I'd be interested in a solution as well... I have an NAS drive on VFAT which
> works great for storing dmg's and the like but ruins actual system files. So
> it's not viable for a direct backup medium.
> 
> I am aware that Linux can mount HFS read/write but I have heard its
> >not that safe.
> 
> 
> 
> It's not safe in my expeirences with doing this.  Mounting OSX as "rw,force"
> in fstab gave me a non-bootable OSX after a couple days with no clear way of
> fixing it. Threw me to a black OSX command prompt after the spinning wheel
> bootup screen asking for a user name/passwd, none of which worked... :-(
> Couldn't login in as root or my user. Format time.. No fun... Pretty sure
> it's because the HFS partition was journaled. I'm betting that if you
> install OSX on a non-journaled HFS, linux won't bork it while writing. Not
> sure...
> 
> Jon

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