Re: Macintosh Partitions are locked when running MOL


Subject: Re: Macintosh Partitions are locked when running MOL
From: Greg Painter (gpainte717@earthlink.net)
Date: Sun Sep 02 2001 - 23:01:28 MDT


Kyle Maher wrote:

> It is an HFS partition, and it is marked as -rw, however, I also
> believe that it is mounted in linux. I know I can unmount it by
> using "umount", but is there a way to have it not mount on
> start up?

If it is mounting at boot, then there is a line in the /etc/fstab
that causes it to mount. Comment out this line with a '#'.

>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brice D Ruth [mailto:brice@webprojkt.com]
> Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2001 9:24 AM
> To: mol-general@lists.maconlinux.org
> Subject: Re: Macintosh Partitions are locked when running MOL
>
>
> If your Mac partition is mounted in Linux then it will appear locked in
> MOL. Otherwise, you need to have the following in your /etc/molrc:
>
> blkdev: <partition> -rw
>
> the -rw flag indicates that this volume should allow read/write access,
> -ro indicates it should allow read-only access.
>
> HTH
> Brice
>
> Kyle Maher wrote:
>
>
>>Hello, when running MOL, I can read my Macintosh filesystem,
>>but cannot write to it. I have tried many different things
>>in the configuration file, but nothing seems to work. Does
>>anyone have any suggestions?
>>
>>Thank you in advance,
>> Kyle Maher
>> KyleMaher@eLighthousePoint.net
>>
>>
>
>
>
>

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glp, USA



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