On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 12:35 PM Jonas Smedegaard <jo...@jones.dk> wrote:
> Quoting Kenneth Parker (2020-02-13 18:03:20) > > I am helping a friend install Debian on an older MacBook, running OS X > > 10.11 (El Capitan). It currently has a single 300G HFS Plus (Journaled) > > Partition, with lots of free space. > > > > He wants to keep OS X, and use Buster (or Sid, leading to the next Stable > > Release). > > > > He wants to shrink the Mac Partition, create a couple more for this. (I > > explained the need for two, including a Swap Partition to him). > > > > He thinks that Debian should be able to work on the same HFS Plus Disk > > format. Has anyone tried this? > > > > This is all preliminary now, as I am trying to talk him into ext4 for the > > Debian Partition and, if he needs a place to share files, put a small, > > fourth vfat Partition in for that. > > Debian (and Linux in general) supports read-write access to HFS+ > partitions, but it is unreliable. I would expect it to be difficult to > setup and the result would be unreliable (either because you would end > up depending on the unreliable HFS+ write access, or because you would > end up having a too complex to reliably maintain stack of hacks to work > around the unreliable HFS+ write access). > I have read up on this HFS+ file system and concur completely. My friend didn't like my answer (don't use HFS+ for Linux) at all, putting the whole "project" in question. More on another reply. Thanks! Kenneth Parker
