shared partition

[René Bourion]

Hello!

I met that problem recently. I have a HFS partition that is intended to
transfer things between MacOS 9 and Linux, but I was unable to write in it
from Linux. I tried to change permissions, without success.

Searching the lists about it, I found that this situation is fairly well
known.

I understand that chmod is bound to fail in a HFS volume, for reasons
pertaining to the structure of the file system. But one can get around this
difficulty by using umask.

Here is a copy of my /etc/fstab file:

/dev/hda10   /               ext2      defaults        1  1
/dev/hda9    swap            swap      defaults        0  0
/dev/hda8    /giga           hfs       defaults,umask=000
                                                       1  2
/dev/hda11   /home           ext2      defaults        1  2
/dev/cdrom   /mnt/cdrom      auto      noauto,ro,user  0  0
none         /proc           proc      defaults        0  0
none         /proc/bus/usb   usbdevfs  defaults        0  0
none         /dev/shm        tmpfs     defaults        0  0
none         /dev/pts        devpts  gid=5,mode=620    0  0

You see that I have added for the HFS volume the option "umask=000". This
ensures that the HFS volume and its whole contents receive the full
permission rwxrwxrwx. Then there is no longer any trouble.

I hope this answers your question.

R.B.

Original message:

Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 09:25:37 +0200
From: BRINER Cedric <briner@infomaniak.ch>
Subject: Re: shared partition
To: ydl <yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com

hi,

I get stucked in this issue!!!..

It seems that the ydl is not really able to manage full read/write
access to the shared partition...

For example, I'm not able do delete hiding file created by osX as:
.finderinfo
.resource
.mcop

any idea why ??

thanks in advance

briner_20021006
> hi,
> I would like to know if there is a way to fully(rw access from both OS)
> share a partition between osX and YDL...
> 
> an in this case which type of partition !!!
> 
> briner_20021004