> I'm trying to get hfsutils 1.0b(7?) to work on my system.
> I could compile the program all right, but when i tried to
> hmount a hfs partition, 
> 
> % hmount /dev/sd1d 
> 
> it quitted with an error message:
> 
> % cannot obtain lock on device /dev/sd1d (Operation not supported)
> 
> What does this mean?  Any help would be greatly appreciated!
> 

There's a problem with the latest versions of the hfsutils.  They employ 
file locking which is not quite supported by NetBSD.  You can simply 
comment out the necessary lines in (I think) libhfs.c, and it will work.

Later.

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