Is it possible to read HPs hfs file formated disk under linux? I'm
using Red Hat but that shouldn't make a difference.

On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 13:49:34 -0800, Daniel Allex typed:

Yes it's possible, read 'man mount' without the quotes.


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Lenard wrote:

The mount man page references "hfs" twice, without explanation. "HP"
doesn't appear, except as a substring in other words. From personal
experience, though, the Linux hfs driver is for Apple's Hierarchical File
System (HFS). I've never heard of an HFS from HP before now, but a quick
Google search turns up this post:

http://lists.parisc-linux.org/piperm...ch/008478.html

This post suggests that HP's HFS is just UFS, which Linux does support.
UFS is quite variable from one OS to another, though, and there are a
bunch of mount options that relate to these differences. I don't know
whether HP's HFS is mountable using Linux's ufs driver, or if so what
options you'd need to use. You may need to experiment or do some more
searches on Google or Google Groups.

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Thanks for the input.

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