How dangerous is HFS+ in FreeBSD 5.3?

[Eric Anderson]

Timothy Luoma wrote:
> 
> I have an external 60GB Firewire drive currently (stupidly) formatted in 
> HFS+ (Mac OS X "Extended").  I'd like to get all the files off of the 
> drive and onto my FreeBSD machine (which has firewire card installed, 
> although I've yet to try and tackle mounting it).
> 
> http://people.freebsd.org/~yar/hfs/ was the place to turn, but there are 
> several very ominous warnings about using it for important data.  I was 
> curious as to whether this was just one of those "cover your behind" 
> disclaimers or a "really, don't use this for anything important" 
> disclaimers.

If you are simply recovering your mp3's^H^H^H^H^Hdata, then just mount it read 
only, copy data, unmount.. After the copy, who cares if it trashes it?

Eric



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Eric Anderson        Sr. Systems Administrator        Centaur Technology
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