UBUNTU OSX partition

[Liam Proven]

On Sat, 1 Jun 2019 at 15:22, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
>
> Wondering:
>
> Will the new[er] version[s] of MacOSX handle HFS+?

For now, yes.

> If so than a HFS+
> formatted /home (or /Users) partition might make sense.

You can't control mount points directly in a standalone macOS system.

Saying that, you can move your own personal home directory. On my old
Mac mini I had / on a 128 GB SSD and /Users/lproven on a 1TB HD. (I
later hit a problem -- the settings-transfer tool can't handle this
split and I had to move it myself.)

> Eg have the system
> arranged with a APFS MacOSX root file system, an Ext4 Ubuntu root file system,
> and a HFS+ formatted /home (or /Users) partition, (plus swap partition(s)).

You can't have dedicated swap for macOS either. One must let go of as
much Unix know-how moving from Ubuntu as one must forget Windows
know-how when moving from it to Ubuntu.

Yes, you probably could install this, but macOS automatically converts
drives to APFS when it feels like it, so it probably would not stay
that way.

TBH it simply isn't worth trying. Put OS X in one big disk partition,
and manage your own supplemental storage. You can wrest control from
macOS for a while but you will always pay later. :-(

> This would allow for sahred *user* data files (documents, photos, etc.) that
> both O/Ss can access.  *I* didn't know about Apple's "new and improved(?)"
> file system games (is Apple taking a page out of Microsoft book?)...

Possibly but probably not worth it. A macOS Server would make some of
this easier. I am considering trying it myself, actually.

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