Re: Case-sensitivity in Terminal.app and X11 xterm
Re: Case-sensitivity in Terminal.app and X11 xterm
- Subject: Re: Case-sensitivity in Terminal.app and X11 xterm
- From: Nick Zitzmann <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 19:29:11 -0800
(Note: Meta-reply to this thread below)
On Saturday, March 22, 2003, at 05:46 PM, Rick Prest wrote:
Can anyone out there tell me how I can make filenames case-sensitive?
Short answer: Reformat your disk to use UFS instead of HFS+.
Long answer: As others have said, HFS+ is a case-insensitive file
system. It always has been, and probably always will be, because a
number of programs would break if it wasn't. Unfortunately, there is no
way to make HFS+ case-sensitive. UFS, OTOH, is a case-sensitive file
system.
If there is a better place to ask this, I would be happy to oblige.
<http://www.omnigroup.com/developer/mailinglists/>
This would be an on-topic question for the macosx-admin or macosx-talk
lists...
On Saturday, March 22, 2003, at 06:27 PM, Brian Kurotsuchi wrote:
So, I'm a serious *NIX geek... I am running 10.2.4 with UFS root, so
I am
curious why you suggest not doing it. A short investigation on my
part only
yielded someone's comment that UFS was "slow". Is this the basis of
your
comment as well?
A number of Mac programs, mostly Carbon programs that have to transfer
resources or certain types of data around, or depend on case
insensitivity, do not work with UFS. Unfortunately, this means that you
can't run Palm Desktop or some other popular Mac programs if you use
UFS.
Nick Zitzmann
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