On Sun, Mar 11, Joss Winn wrote:
Hello,
Recently, I have been crashing SUSE hard (all keyboard and mouse is dead) several times a day when copying files to or from my Macintosh HFS partition. I want to ask your advice.
When installing SUSE, I reformatted my Mac partition as HFS and am running OS 9.04 on this partition and swapping files to and from it to my Linux partition. Should there be a problem doing this?
When I mount my Mac partition under Linux, the kernel messages say it is mounting an unclean partion. Why does it say this?
Should I have an HFS+ partition with a separate 'shared' partition for swapping files between the Mac and Linux. I am guessing that dumping files on the Mac side and then booting into the Mac via MOL or rebooting, is confusing the directory structure of the Mac.
Any advice on how to safely deal with HFS paritions and going from Mac to Linux and back with ease would be appreciated.
There are some known problems with the HFS code in the kernel. Its unmaintained. If you need to copy files between MacOS and Linux, use hfsutils. Gruss Olaf -- $ man clone BUGS Main feature not yet implemented...