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by **George Czer** » Mon, 03 Apr 2000 05:00:00

Its been my understanding that the Red Hat 2.2.x kernel inherently
supports reading from and writing to OS/2 HPFS partitions. Can
anyone confirm or deny that Mandrake implemented this "feature"?

I'm using the LM 7.0-2 version (kernel 2.2.14-15mdk), and have no
trouble mounting and reading from the OS/2 HPFS partitions, but so
far have not been able to "write" to them, either as root or anyone
else! I keep getting an error message telling me that the file
system is a "read-only" file system.

The current fstab entries are shown below:

/dev/sda1/ /usr/os2boot hpfs
user,etc,dev,suid,rw,noauto,conv=binary,uid=501,gid=503,umask=0 1 1

/dev/sdb1/ /usr/os2data hpfs
user,etc,dev,suid,rw,noauto,conv=binary,uid=501,gid=503,umask=0 1 1

Has anyone else had success in this area?

George

by **Ken Walt** » Tue, 04 Apr 2000 04:00:00

>Its been my understanding that the Red Hat 2.2.x kernel inherentlysupports reading from and writing to OS/2 HPFS partitions. Cananyone confirm or deny that Mandrake implemented this "feature"?I'm using the LM 7.0-2 version (kernel 2.2.14-15mdk), and have notrouble mounting and reading from the OS/2 HPFS partitions, but sofar have not been able to "write" to them, either as root or anyoneelse! I keep getting an error message telling me that the filesystem is a "read-only" file system.The current fstab entries are shown below: /dev/sda1/ /usr/os2boot hpfs user,etc,dev,suid,rw,noauto,conv=binary,uid=501,gid=503,umask=0 1 1 /dev/sdb1/ /usr/os2data hpfs user,etc,dev,suid,rw,noauto,conv=binary,uid=501,gid=503,umask=0 1 1Has anyone else had success in this area?George

Sound like what I head on ZDTV. Any file system not supporting
access control like FAT and HPFS are "read-only". 8-(

Ken Walter

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by **Bill Unr** » Wed, 05 Apr 2000 04:00:00

(Please break your lines. while it may look OK on your software, it is unreadable
on most other people's.)

Quote:>>Its been my understanding that the Red Hat 2.2.x kernel inherentlysupports

reading from and writing to OS/2 HPFS partitions.

Quote:>Sound like what I head on ZDTV. Any file system not supporting
>access control like FAT and HPFS are "read-only". 8-(

FAT is writable with no trouble (only by root by default but you can letusers
write as well). HPFS last I read is read only at least in part because IBM has
been less than forthcoming about the innards of HPFS.

by **plu..** » Fri, 07 Apr 2000 04:00:00

I believe (don't quote me ;P) that the new 2.4.0 kernel will have support for
writing to HPFS partitions, as well as other nifty stuff like USB and true
Plug-N-Pray support, as well as support for speech synth cards even at boot
time.

Check out ftp.kernel.org for the latest release... 2.4.0 isn't quite out yet
but i believe the latest alpha is 2.3.99-prepatch something or other and it's
basically a rough version of what will soon be 2.4.0.

Of course, as usual, make sure to back up carefully before mucking around
with new major kernel releases

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by **ksoz** » Thu, 29 Jun 2000 04:00:00

About those line breaks... I find that if you're using Netscape 4.72 you can go to preferences|Messages| and
select Message Wrapping solving that problem real fast. Just a helpful hint (:o>)

> (Please break your lines. while it may look OK on your software, it is unreadable
> on most other people's.)

> >>Its been my understanding that the Red Hat 2.2.x kernel inherentlysupports
> reading from and writing to OS/2 HPFS partitions.

> >Sound like what I head on ZDTV. Any file system not supporting
> >access control like FAT and HPFS are "read-only". 8-(

> FAT is writable with no trouble (only by root by default but you can letusers
> write as well). HPFS last I read is read only at least in part because IBM has
> been less than forthcoming about the innards of HPFS.

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