-emory- Posted February 28, 2008 Share Posted February 28, 2008 Hey everyone, I've been a long time Ubuntu user, and I ditched windows afew years ago, but I've never really ahd a chance to mess around with OSX, so, out of curiousity I installed it on a partition of my laptop. The problem is I have most of my files and important stuff on my ubuntu partition, and some important stuff on the macosx partition, is there anyway to acess the other partitions files from each os? My setup looks like this: 90 gig ext3 - Ubuntu 30 gig (journaled) - Leapord 3 gig - Swap I know I can't be the first person to be interested in this, but i haven't been able to find a clear answer anywhere. Any and all help is greatly appreciated! Thanks emory Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/90695-sharing-files-between-partitions-in-ubuntu-and-osx86/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
wmarsh Posted February 28, 2008 Share Posted February 28, 2008 Hey everyone, I've been a long time Ubuntu user, and I ditched windows afew years ago, but I've never really ahd a chance to mess around with OSX, so, out of curiousity I installed it on a partition of my laptop. The problem is I have most of my files and important stuff on my ubuntu partition, and some important stuff on the macosx partition, is there anyway to acess the other partitions files from each os? My setup looks like this: 90 gig ext3 - Ubuntu 30 gig (journaled) - Leapord 3 gig - Swap I know I can't be the first person to be interested in this, but i haven't been able to find a clear answer anywhere. Any and all help is greatly appreciated! Thanks emory Linux can read hfsplus -- just add the partition to your fstab. Its read only for journaled file system. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/90695-sharing-files-between-partitions-in-ubuntu-and-osx86/#findComment-647591 Share on other sites More sharing options...
-emory- Posted February 28, 2008 Author Share Posted February 28, 2008 is there anyway to change the filesystem from journaled to... "not" journaled? also, is there anyway that the macosx partition can read/write to the ext3? I CAN reformat the disk (I just had to recently) but obviously the preferable way would be to NOT have to do that... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/90695-sharing-files-between-partitions-in-ubuntu-and-osx86/#findComment-647637 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Korrupted Posted March 1, 2008 Share Posted March 1, 2008 diskutil disablejournal / in OSX terminal. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/90695-sharing-files-between-partitions-in-ubuntu-and-osx86/#findComment-649744 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dasepsilon Posted March 1, 2008 Share Posted March 1, 2008 besides, later linux can also _write_ even journaled hpfs. but without any warranty+the filesystem must be clean (e.g. by booting -s and doing an fsck) to get write support you have to specify it by -o rw,force and afaik there is no way to read ext3 in osx, unless there is an ext3 plugin for macfuse-- is there? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/90695-sharing-files-between-partitions-in-ubuntu-and-osx86/#findComment-649815 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JollyRogers Posted March 1, 2008 Share Posted March 1, 2008 @emory, Please google Ext2FS and you will find the answer for reading/writing to your 90G Ext3 partition while in MAC. I use it in read only mode, but at least I can get something over to the HFS side. It will work in write mode, however it tended to mess with the schema of the ext3 partition and everytime I would boot linux it would have to verify the partition, so I use read only. In ubuntu, I can mount the HFS partition no problem, just need superuser password. It is read only. I have not looked into write. I honestly can't remember if I added anything to the base install or not. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/90695-sharing-files-between-partitions-in-ubuntu-and-osx86/#findComment-650036 Share on other sites More sharing options...
-emory- Posted March 1, 2008 Author Share Posted March 1, 2008 Thanks for the repl, Rogers! I reformated both disks as HFS+ (not journaled) and ext2. So far I have read write to the ext2 on osx and linux(obviously) but I still can not write to the osx drive. I suppose that will do, since the osx drive is only 30 gigs and the ubuntu drive is 120 but still, its' be nice to be able t od o both. Thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/90695-sharing-files-between-partitions-in-ubuntu-and-osx86/#findComment-650112 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JollyRogers Posted March 1, 2008 Share Posted March 1, 2008 Glad to help, though I am sorry to see you reformatting partitions! I use ext3 for Ubuntu and it will work with ext2 & ext3 partitions using the program I referred you to from the MAC side. In fact it comes with a utility with options for auto mount, manually mount, mount read only, or mount read/write. It isn't perfect, but it works. Check out http://www.ardistech.com/hfsplus/ for read & WRITE from the linux side. You will have to compile it yourself unless you can find a deb package or whatnot for your Ubuntu. Apparently the driver allows full read/write access to HFS+ from your linux install. I don't have time right now, but will look into testing myself, since I can't get torrents through MAC or Windows, but have no problem on the linux side (wierd huh?). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/90695-sharing-files-between-partitions-in-ubuntu-and-osx86/#findComment-650494 Share on other sites More sharing options...
-emory- Posted March 1, 2008 Author Share Posted March 1, 2008 yeah that's pretty weird.. I dunno I started this as a project because I was on break. I don't think I'll be switching full time to osx, but it's fun to mess around with. I still have to get wireless to work though. For some reason the card acts like it connects when the computer first turns on, but then immediately disconnects and can't find any networks. THAT's weird. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/90695-sharing-files-between-partitions-in-ubuntu-and-osx86/#findComment-650530 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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