Quoting Kenneth Parker (2020-02-13 18:03:20) > I am helping a friend install Debian on an older MacBook, running OS X > 10.11 (El Capitan). It currently has a single 300G HFS Plus (Journaled) > Partition, with lots of free space. > > He wants to keep OS X, and use Buster (or Sid, leading to the next Stable > Release). > > He wants to shrink the Mac Partition, create a couple more for this. (I > explained the need for two, including a Swap Partition to him). > > He thinks that Debian should be able to work on the same HFS Plus Disk > format. Has anyone tried this? > > This is all preliminary now, as I am trying to talk him into ext4 for the > Debian Partition and, if he needs a place to share files, put a small, > fourth vfat Partition in for that.
Debian (and Linux in general) supports read-write access to HFS+ partitions, but it is unreliable. I would expect it to be difficult to setup and the result would be unreliable (either because you would end up depending on the unreliable HFS+ write access, or because you would end up having a too complex to reliably maintain stack of hacks to work around the unreliable HFS+ write access). - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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