Removing/Resizing YDL?

[Steven J. Norton]

Would this tool (ext2fsx) then allow me to mount Linux filesystems on the
Mac OS desktop so that they were accessible to Mac backup programs? I've
been looking for easier ways to run network backups so that I can get both
my Mac and Linux systems backed up at one time. I bought BRU for my Linux
server, but that has its own (slow) tape drive. I use Retrospect with
network clients to back up my Mac drives (to a nice AIT drive attached to my
G4 tower), and would love to be able to catch both the OS X and YDL
partitions on my laptop at the same time. (Retrospect has a client for
Linux, but it only works on Intel hardware and they have not responded to
those of us asking for a PPC version.)

And even if I could get Retrospect to see my YDL drives, could I trust the
backup? Any advice appreciated.

  -- Steve

on 8/2/2004 9:55 AM, Clinton McDonald wrote:

> As a workaround, you could try ext2fsx. ext2fsx is a Mac OS X extension
> that allows you to mount and read/write ext2 partitions in Mac OS X (YDL
> uses the ext3 filesystem, which is ext2 with journaling tacked on). This
> will allow you to use some of your YDL space to store documents and
> files, especially those you want to access from both YDL and Mac OS X.
> ext2fsx is reasonably stable, and no one I know of has reported any
> problems with non-beta versions:
> 
> <http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsx/>

> 
> Good luck!
> 
> Best wishes,
> Clint