Question on OSX and YDL on a PB

[Mark Jaffe]

I share my Linux partitions in OS X using the ExtFSManager Preference 
Panel from Brian Bergstrand. (brian at classicalguitar.net, I think it 
is in SourceForge)
On the Linux side, it has a mount-point in /etc/fstab of type hfsplus.


On Feb 25, 2005, at 12:55 PM, Geert Janssens wrote:

> Copied from a thread on partion resizing in this mailing list:
>
> Daniel Gimpelevich wrote:
>> Wow. I had never heard of iPartition until just now, nor was I aware 
>> of
>> the patched version of parted on the Gentoo LiveCD. So at the MacWorld
>> Expo, when Prosoft Engineering told me that their new product Drive 
>> Genius
>> is the only program that resizes HFS+, I only told them about 
>> VolumeWorks.
>> They still didn't believe me. I think I might go back there today and 
>> tell
>> them about these other programs. So there are exactly four that will 
>> do
>> this job:
>> 1) VolumeWorks:
> <http://www.subrosasoft.com/thestore/product_info.php?products_id=431>
>> 2) iPartition: <http://www.coriolis-systems.com/iPartition.html>
>> 3) Drive Genius: 
>> <http://www.prosofteng.com/products/drive_genius_info.php>
>> 4) Gentoo parted: 
>> <http://gentoo.osuosl.org/releases/ppc/2004.3/livecd/>
>>
>
> At least this part could help you resize the OS X partition without 
> destroying
> the information contained inside.
>
> The partition or directories sharing part, has to be split up in two 
> use
> cases:
> 1. share directories/partitions simultaniously (as in: both OS's 
> accessing the
> same partition at the same time)
> 2. share them, but only one OS gets to write to the partition at any 
> one given
> moment.
>
> 1. In the first case (which could happen when you run MOL with MacOS 
> X) you
> could setup Appletalk or NFS shares on both linux and Mac OS X, and 
> mount
> these shares on the other system. Since those are network file 
> systems, they
> deal automatically with simultaneous write actions.
>
> 2. The second case is valid when you only have linux or Mac OS X 
> running at
> any given time, but never the two together. In this case, you could 
> either
> setup a hfs partition, that can be mounted in both OS'es, or find a 
> ext2/ext3
> driver for Mac OS X (via Fink ?) and setup a ext2/ext3 partition you 
> can
> mount in both linux or Mac OS X.
>
> As you see, it depends on the way you will be using it, but it's 
> certainly
> possible.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Geert Jan
>
>
> On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 10:43:23 -0600, dotgl1970 wrote:
>
> On Friday 25 February 2005 21:31, Derick Centeno wrote:
>> Hi Gang:
>> Sometime ago there was a detailed discussion on how YDL and OS X can 
>> share
>> directories or partitions on one drive.  I'm interested in 
>> discovering if
>> this is so and if there is a special installation process for a PB 
>> which
>> would allow me to install YDL 4 without wiping whatever is on the PB 
>> drive.
>>
>> Any takers....?
>>
>> Thanks...ahead of time for your input.
>> Best wishes...Derick.
>>
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