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hfsprogs package

  1. Bug #737002
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 737002

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Rogério Theodoro de Brito (rbrito) wrote : Re: [Bug 737002] [NEW] mkfs.hfsplus does not create UUID

Dear Lars,

Thanks for reporting this bug.

On Mar 17 2011, Lars Noodén wrote:
> Formatting a partition as HFSPLUS does not provide the partition with a
> UUID. A work around is to boot to OS X and use the disk utility to
> format the partition. The expected behavior is that mkfs assigns a UUID
> to the new partition.

I see.

Since the version that I am packaging is somewhat old, I think that some
upgrade may be able to fix this *if* the generation of the UUID is
incorporated in Apple's diskdev_cmds package (which I rename to create
hfsprogs for Linux).

Failing that, I will have to study how Apple implements the UUID thing and
provide a wrapper for that.

I do hope that the 1st option actually provides us with a fix without
something flaky.

Thanks as usual for the feedback,

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