skyhighmac Posted September 18, 2007 Share Posted September 18, 2007 Could I mount a hard drive (hfs+) that is hooked up to a linux box and then use it as if it was like an external hd, and be able to install apps on it, well like the FCS2 extra files on it? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/63610-hard-drive-on-a-linux-box/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
thegodfaza Posted September 18, 2007 Share Posted September 18, 2007 I believe SATA lets you do that. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/63610-hard-drive-on-a-linux-box/#findComment-450163 Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyhighmac Posted September 18, 2007 Author Share Posted September 18, 2007 Well, I want the drive to be hooked up to another computer and use the drive over a network, thought the comp will actually be sitting right next to me. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/63610-hard-drive-on-a-linux-box/#findComment-450173 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hecker Posted September 18, 2007 Share Posted September 18, 2007 Yes, it will work but it might be slow compared to an installation on the HDD. hecker Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/63610-hard-drive-on-a-linux-box/#findComment-450248 Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyhighmac Posted September 18, 2007 Author Share Posted September 18, 2007 Is there anything special I'd need to do? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/63610-hard-drive-on-a-linux-box/#findComment-450523 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hecker Posted September 18, 2007 Share Posted September 18, 2007 I guess the easiest way to do it would be to create a Samba share on your linux box and add a user that matches your OSX user. You can add the samba share to your fstab file in linux, so it's loaded automatically at boot. Cheers, hecker Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/63610-hard-drive-on-a-linux-box/#findComment-450556 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shagbag Posted September 18, 2007 Share Posted September 18, 2007 BEWARE: storing apps is very different to storing files. Apps often rely on software libraries located elsewhere in the filesystem tree. Provided you specify the right flags when you compile the apps you should be okay. If you don't, your apps may not run. For example, suppose an app needs the library 'libcss' in /usr/lib/. It will look for it in /usr/lib/ but won't find it because it's actually in /name_of_directory_containing_HFS+_mount/usr/lib/. You can fix this, of course, by making a link in /usr/lib (ie. /usr/lib/libcss) to /name_of_directory_containing_HFS+_mount/usr/lib/libcss. Depending upon how may situations like this occur, you may have a few links to make or many links to make to get the app working. This can be avoided, of course, if you compile the app with the appropriate directory 'flags' in the first place. Alternatively, you could chroot your user into /name_of_directory_containing_HFS+_mount but then you're trapped from there on in. Depending upon what app you're running this may not be a problem, but if you want to run other apps which are located on your linux drive, you're snookered. SAMBA, NFS, SSHFS, etc. are usually used just for file serving and rarely for serving up apps. Just some things to consider. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/63610-hard-drive-on-a-linux-box/#findComment-450601 Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyhighmac Posted September 18, 2007 Author Share Posted September 18, 2007 Well I want to install all of the FCS2 extra files on the linux box, the apple site says you can, and my internal drive is only 80, so I just want the apps on my system. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/63610-hard-drive-on-a-linux-box/#findComment-450706 Share on other sites More sharing options...
thegodfaza Posted September 20, 2007 Share Posted September 20, 2007 You may want to consider buying a file server. Linksys and others make them. They are about the size of a router and connect to your network. You can easly access them from all your computers. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/63610-hard-drive-on-a-linux-box/#findComment-451458 Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyhighmac Posted September 20, 2007 Author Share Posted September 20, 2007 I thought about that, but I am trying to spend the least amount of money. I've got an old p3 sitting in my closet and I'm gonna put a sata card in that and use that. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/63610-hard-drive-on-a-linux-box/#findComment-451469 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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