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REPLY:  03b6ab67

PID: SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
A. Dumas  wrote:

> > Mostly by following
> > <https://www.howtogeek.com/276468/how-to-use-a-raspberry-pi-as-a-network
> > ed-time-machine-drive-for-your-mac/>, but with a few changes.
> >
> > For example, I use ext4 rather than HFS+, and as far as I can tell, the
>
> If you do use HFS+, you need to turn off journaling on the drive, while
> it is still connected to your Mac. Can't be done from linux (well, it
> can, but...) and you need it off to enable R/W access (well, you can
> force R/W access, but...).
>
> Also, in my experience a year or so ago, the HFS+ drivers are so shit
> that my drive got corrupted all the time, making it read-only which then
> needed unmount/fschk/remount to fix.

I started with HFS+ - and I ran into corruption after a few days.

I don't know of course whether that was related to HFS+, but I noted
several warnings from others.

Since using ext4, I have not had any issues.

> In summary, don't use HFS+. BUT, then you can't attach it directly to
> your Mac again.

I thougt I might have to, because of speed issues (to get the backup
started). But it was fine, with my 300GB HDD.

Daniele

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