On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 16:10 -0700, Dean S. Messing wrote: > Rodney D. Myers wrote: > > > Dean Messing wrote: > > > I just purchaced a Macbook for my daughter as she's off to college > > > (required by the dept. she's in). I'm wondering if OS X understands > > > the ext3 filesysystem. In particular, will it properly handle > > > symlinks generated under linux? > <snip> > > > > Not out of the box. > > > > I think this is the project I'm using to access my linux external > > drives. > > > > <http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsx/> > > Not what I was hoping to hear. :-) > (But thanks for your quick response! > > I'll have a look but, being entirely ignorant of Macs, I probably > shd. ask another question: > > Is there F/S that Mac and Linux have in common that supports > symlinking? I have the ntfs-3g stuff installed on this F8 machine, > but I don't know if (i) Mac speaks it and (ii) it supports symlinks. > I can find out for myself if (ii) is true, but I don't > have access to a Mac to find out (i). ---- I think you are over thinking this... If you tar the files and untar them on the MacOS HD (HFS+), the symbolic links should be fine. http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPFileSystem/Articles/Aliases.html I seriously doubt that bringing in a non-native file system is the answer you are looking for. Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list