Sharing files across OS partitions

[Jason DeVita]

On Mon, 24 Jul 2006, Eric Dunbar wrote:
> On 24/07/06, Jason DeVita <jdevita at umich.edu> wrote:
>> On Sun, 23 Jul 2006, Mark Christal wrote:
>> > I am hoping to install a dual boot YDL/OSX system on my Ti Powerbook and 
>> was
>> > wondering how work on the YDL side of the hard drive can be shared with 
>> work
>> > on the Mac OS X side.  Will I be able to open up the Mac partition to
>> > retrieve files when I am running YDL and  visa versa?  If not, is there a
>> > partition scheme that I can create that would allow both OSs to read and
>> > write to a shared partition?
>> 
>> OSX uses HFS+ for its file system.  YDL has very good read/write support
>> for HFS (plain vanilla non-plus).  And I know that HFS+ can be read from
>> YDL, but I'm not sure if it can be written to.  Supposedly, there is now
>> full linux support for HFS+, but I don't know if the newest YDL has it by
>> default.  But if need be, it probably can be done.
>
> YDL supports HFS+ out of the box. Just mount an HFS+ partition with -t
> hfsplus as its format flag and you should be good to go.
>

That's good to know.  Thanks.  I think I tried writing to (or more 
specifically deleting from) HFS+ once along time ago, and ended up 
damaging the filesystem.  Nothing a forced file system check couldn't 
undo, thankfully.  That was quite a while ago though, so it probably works 
better now.  I'll have to try it out.

-J