read/write to hfsplus drive?

[altern]

Eric Dunbar wrote:
>  Sat, 12 Feb 2005 08:52:56 +0100, altern <enrike at org> wrote:
> 
>>Eric Dunbar wrote:
>>
>>>>no. it mounts ok as far as i can see. I wonder if there is some option i
>>>>am setting wrong or some permission stuff in the folders within the drive
>>>
>>>
>>>Of course! If you're mounting an OS X partition, it has its own
>>>permission settings which will be different from your Ubuntu ones. You
>>>need to be root to write anything, or happen to have the same UID or
>>>GID IIRC.
>>
>>no this is not the OSX partition but a data partition i have that
>>contains just documents, do you think it could be a problem between the
>>permissions of osx and linux?
>>
>>I tried to copy stuff into that partition with 'sudo nautilus' and i
>>couldnt either, same error.
>>
>>I dont what UID or GID IIRC is, i am pretty new to unix stuff.
> 
> 
> Same difference. Because you use OS X to write these files to disk (I
> presume) they will inherit the permissions that you use!
> 
> UID = user id, GID = group ID.
> 
> The UID on Mac OS X has to = the UID in Ubuntu or else you won't be
> able to read/write the files, unless additional permissions are set.
> 
> It seems to me that I cheated by doing "sudo nautilus" (or you could
> do "gksudo nautilus") to give nautilus super user powers and allow me
> to write and read anything on my HFS+ partition.

ok, i will check the permissions on osx and see if i see something that 
could be causing the problem.

> Good luck. If you need help beyond that, ask the list again. This is
> starting to get to the edge of my ability to fix things (plus, I'm
> focussed entirely on recovering my server... I did an upgrade in
> place, and went through dependency hell (!@$!%# yum sucks) and am now
> in the process of backing up the partitions, just in case I lose the
> /home partition when I format and re-install /).

thanks!

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enrike