Re: problem while moving HOME from FreeBSD to MacOS with bsdtar
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2023 10:07:16 UTC
Matthias, hello. On 9 Mar 2023, at 9:52, Matthias Apitz wrote: > You're fully correct. There are two directory entries, but both point to > the same inode and data blocks: > > $ ls -li Homework HOMEWORK > 4016236 -rw-r--r-- 1 apitzm OCLC\Domain Users 0 9 Mär 09:37 HOMEWORK > 4016236 -rw-r--r-- 1 apitzm OCLC\Domain Users 0 9 Mär 09:37 Homework > No, there's only one directory entry, but you're listing it twice: % ls Homework % ls -li total 0 32687651 -rw-r--r-- 1 norman wheel 0 9 Mar 09:59 Homework % ls -li Homework HOMEWORK 32687651 -rw-r--r-- 1 norman wheel 0 9 Mar 09:59 HOMEWORK 32687651 -rw-r--r-- 1 norman wheel 0 9 Mar 09:59 Homework % ls -li Homework homework HOMEWORK hOmEwOrK 32687651 -rw-r--r-- 1 norman wheel 0 9 Mar 09:59 HOMEWORK 32687651 -rw-r--r-- 1 norman wheel 0 9 Mar 09:59 Homework 32687651 -rw-r--r-- 1 norman wheel 0 9 Mar 09:59 hOmEwOrK 32687651 -rw-r--r-- 1 norman wheel 0 9 Mar 09:59 homework > What is this for a file system idea? I will check, if I can modify this > without reinstallation of the complete system. It's just case-insensitive -- a particular design choice. You can create new filesystems in the APFS container, either with Disk Utility or with diskutil, and that's occasionally useful (as I mentioned, Nix on macOS is installed in a case-sensitive volume). I don't _think_ you can change the 'personality' of an existing volume, though, and if you were to try to install macOS on a non-standard filesystem (and if you were to achieve that) I suspect the OS would break entertainingly. Best wishes, Norman -- Norman Gray : https://nxg.me.uk