On Sun, 13 Sep 1998, Steve Revilak wrote:

> I use hfsutils to transfer files back and fourth between my macs HFs drive
> (not hfs +) and NetBSD UFS volume.  However, though I've tried version 3.2
> and 3.2.2, I continue to use version 2.0.  Any of the 3.x versions causes
> corruption to occur on the Mac drive.  (After moving a few files, I'd test
> with Norton Utils after booting back into MacOS.).  The following are a few
> snippets from Norton's findings:

> I know there are several on this list using 3.x.  Has anyone noted anything
> similiar?  I'll gladly provide additional information (disklabels or
> whatever).

Every version I've ever used has caused corruption, to one degree or
another, of varying degrees, though I have no idea what version spread
that would be.  That's under MkLinux, FWIW, but the damage is similar.
The latest one is an invalid b-tree clump size, which appears to be the
only damage caused by the version I'm using now (whatever comes with
MkLinux DR3).

The general solution that MkLinux'ers use is to create a 10 meg or so
transfer partition for moving files back and forth, and if the corruption
gets too severe, reinitialize the partition.


David

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