Does anyone still need to create legacy HFS filesystems?

Matthew Garrett mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
Fri Feb 3 03:36:51 UTC 2012


On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 09:54:12PM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 9:43 PM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 06:25:50PM -0600, David Lehman wrote:
> >
> >> My understanding is that the so-called "Apple Bootstrap" filesystem
> >> required for ppc Macs to boot is HFS. That's what anaconda uses for it.
> >> If we could be using HFS+ instead, fine.
> >
> > Is that created with hfsplus-utils or with parted?
> 
> I think it calls mkofboot, which is a shell script that calls a bunch of
> commands, but it uses commands from hfsutils (which is not the
> same as hfsplusutils or hfsplus-tools, wtf).

Ok, so that doens't sound like a problem.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org


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