Subject: Re: hfsutils - do they work?
To: Mr BOFH <root@macaroni.cs.wits.ac.za>
From: Stephen C. Brown <sbrown@shellx.best.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 08/29/1996 23:33:13
>I cannot get unix to mount the mac partitions. I need to be able to write
>to them. i tried reading the hmount manpage but it was less than helpful.
>the syntax it gives is
>
>hmount sourcepath partition
>
I have not tried the latest copy of the hfs utils, but on previous copies,
you basically passed as an argument to "hmount" the actual device for the
MacOS partition you wanted to use(i.e. /dev/sd1h, or whatever it happens to be)
You can use "disklabel" to find out the partitions on a disk and their names.

At least in the previous version, it was not seen the same as a regular
mount, but had it's own set of commands(hcd, hcp, etc.) that basically
said to apply these commands in reference to whatever MacOS partition
was last mounted.  I guess it's kind of equivalent to the "cpin" and "cpout"
trickery done with the installer versus having an actual mount seeable with
the generic set of commands(ls, cp, et al).

Steve Brown