Re: Any advantages of Unix formatting
Re: Any advantages of Unix formatting
- Subject: Re: Any advantages of Unix formatting
- From: Howard Oakley <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2001 19:18:57 +0100
On 4/9/01 1:04, "Andreas Monitzer" <email@hidden> wrote:
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This is definitely offtopic!
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On Tuesday, September 4, 2001, at 01:38 , Ray Lancashire wrote:
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> Does anyone know whether there are any advantages in formatting a Mac OS
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> X Hard Drive as Unix over formatting as Mac OS Extended ?
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You can have two files in the same directory whose only difference in
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names is the case, for instance "hello" and "Hello". This is important for
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some UNIX-apps like apache and python, but doesn't matter for a regular
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user.
That is not correct. You can do this in HFS+ (I have many folders in which
there are case-sensitive filename conflicts) so long as you do not open the
folder in the Finder.
If you decompress many source code packages with OpenUp, you'll find those
conflicts preserved, and so long as the Finder only has to change their path
(when moving their folder) you can move them around on your HFS+ disk. You
can then access those files in Terminal, of course, compile the package,
etc.
Of course, try a Finder copy (e.g. For backing up) and the apparent name
conflict will break the copy. But then I'm using hfspax for that sort of
thing, and that accepts Posix naming conventions [steady, Ondra :-)].
Howard.
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