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From the hfsplus man page:
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"HFS+, also known as the Macintosh Extended Format, was
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introduced by Apple Computer in 1998 with the release of
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MacOS 8.1. It contains many improvements over the old HFS
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file system, most notably the ability to allocate up to
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2^64 blocks, resulting in much more efficient storage of
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many small files on large disks."
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This kio slave lets you read an HFS+ partition from konqueror
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or any other KDE file dialogue. It uses hfsplus tools so you will
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need these installed for it to work.
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TO INSTALL
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Read the INSTALL file.
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NOTES
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Just enter mac:/ into Konqueror and you should see the contents of
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your MacOS partition. Actually you'll probably get an error message
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saying you havn't specified the right partition. Enter something
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like mac:/?dev=/dev/hda2 to specify the partition (if you don't know
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which partition MacOS is on you can probably guess by changing hda2 to
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hda3 and so on or use the print command from mac-fdisk. The partition
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will be used the next time so you don't have to specify it each time.
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Hfsplus tools let you see the file and copy data from the HFS+
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partition but not to copy data to it or change the filenames or such like.
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HFS+ actually keeps two files for every one you see (called forks), a
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resource fork and a data fork. The default copy mode when you're
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copying files across to you native drive is raw data which means it
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just copies the data. Text files are copied in text mode (same as raw
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format but changes the line endings to be Unix friendly and gets rid
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of some funny extra characters - strongly advised for text files)
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unless you specify otherwise. You can also copy the files across in
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Mac Binary II format or specify text or raw format with another query:
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mac:/myfile?mode=b or mac:/myfile?mode=t See man hpcopy for more.
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Note that you need permissions to read your HFS+ partition. How you
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get this depends on your distribution, do a ls -l /dev/hdaX on it to
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see. Under Debian you have to be in the disk group (just add your
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username to the end of the entry in /etc/group).
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File types are done with matching the HFS+ type and application label
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and then by extentions. See the source for the exact matching that
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happens and feel free to suggest improvements.
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For some reason some directories in MacOS end in a funny tall f
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character. This seems to confuse hfstools.
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You can't easiily use the command line tools while you are browsing
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using kio-mac in Konqueror. Konqueror continuously refreshes it's
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view which mean hpmount is being called every few seconds. Click on
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Konqueror's home button before using the tools yourself on the command
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line.
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Hidden files are now shown all the time. Apparantly Konqueror only
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considers files with a dot at the front of the name to be hidden which
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is a bit system dependant.
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Please e-mail me with any comments, problems and success stories:
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Jonathan Riddell, jr@jriddell.org
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