file transfer between mac drives

[Nils Crompton]

Sorry to be too 'user friendly' but...

Is there any way of setting up a permenant icon on the desktop or in 
home for a hfs+ partition?

This is all that stops me using YDL more.  I use my idisk to transfer 
data at the moment.

nils

On Friday, February 7, 2003, at 02:35  AM, joev_nylxs@pipeline.com 
wrote:

> mount -t hfs /dev/hdxN  where x  and N is the partion of your mac os; 
> in my case it's hda9 (mount -t hfs /dev/hda9).
>
> you can edit mnt and  fstab for  a mount point, mine is mac. so I can 
> do mount  /mac.
>
> Then it acts like any drive to copy to it :
>
> cp some_file.txt  /dev/hdxN or in my case  cp my_file.txt /mac
>
> Joe
>
> -------Original Message-------
> From: Derick Centeno <aguila@macol.net>
> Sent: 02/06/03 03:03 AM
> To: yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Subject: file transfer between mac drives
>
>>
>> Question:
> I have two drives.  One dedicated to Linux (YDL 2.3), the other MacOS 
> 8.6.
> The Linux side would find this other drive at /dev/hdxN, where x
> ranges from a-z and N ranges from 1-9. Currently I believe the
> sequence to mount the hfs drive and send a file to it from Linux
> would be two steps:
>
> 1. mount -t hfs /dev/hdxN /mnt/macos
> 2. cp ./happy.txt /mnt/macos
>
> Am I right?  Or is there a better way to do this?
> Thanks for your help.
>
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