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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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