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Re: mounting mac hard disks on E/L



>>>>> "Jeff" == Jeffrey J Kosowsky <kosowsky@bellini.harvard.edu> writes:
In article <KOSOWSKY.96May22101208@bellini.harvard.edu> kosowsky@bellini.harvard.edu (Jeffrey J. Kosowsky) writes:


    Jeff> I succeeded in accessing my old SCSI-I mac disk under E/L
    Jeff> using my adaptec 2940. I am impressed. Congratulations to
    Jeff> the folks at Ardi!

Thanks.  That's one of the pieces of code I wrote that hasn't yet been
rewritten by Mat or Cotton.

    Jeff> However, I only succeeded in mounting under root. I assume
    Jeff> that the problem is with read/write permissions.  I used the
    Jeff> command: export MacVolumes="/dev/sdb"

    Jeff> I know that for other well-defined Linux filesystems such as
    Jeff> ext2, dos, minix etc, you can use the 'mount' command or
    Jeff> 'fstab' file to define mounting permissions. Is there a way
    Jeff> to do this for mac disks to allow them to be user
    Jeff> mountable/readable/writable by executor?

No, you can't use mount or fstab to help you out here.  You can change
the ownership and/or permissions on /dev/sdb although that can be a
bit of a security hole.

    Jeff> Thanks, Jeff

--Cliff
ctm@ardi.com


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