[geeks] Princeton Univ. Surplus haul today...

Michael Parson mparson at bl.org
Wed Aug 23 19:00:20 CDT 2006


On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 04:17:15PM -0400, velociraptor wrote:
> On 8/23/06, Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at verizon.net>wrote:
>> I threw a NOS (New Old Stock) 100 Gig IDE HD drive in as the primary, I am
>> really limited to 128 Gig or less with the system as-is, no matter what O/S I install,
>> correct?
>
> Yeppers.  Doesn't apply on the USB or FW busses, though.

yeah, this depends more on the USB or FW bridge and what it supports.

<snip>

> "cp" won't pick up the legacy forks that may be with older software.
> So, use "CpMac" or the version of rsync that understands HFS+.

This was fixed in 10.4.  All the traditional utils now DTRT with forks.

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Michael Parson
mparson at bl.org



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