Package hfsprogs: Information

Source package: hfsprogs

Version: 332.25-alt2

Build time:  Jul 31, 2012, 01:15 PM

Category: System/Configuration/Hardware

Home page: http://packages.debian.org/ru/sid/hfsprogs

License: APSL

Summary: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems

Description: 

The HFS+ file system used by Apple Computer for their Mac OS is
supported by the Linux kernel.  Apple provides mkfs and fsck for
HFS+ with the Unix core of their operating system, Darwin.

This package is a port of Apple's tools for HFS+ filesystems.

 For users, HFS+ seems to be a good compromise to carry files between
 MacOS X and Linux Machines, as HFS+ doesn't suffer the problems of
 FAT32 like:

 * huge space waste (in slack space as devices grow faster);
 * ability to create files that are more than 4GB in size (especially
   good for those working with multimedia and that need to carry large
   ISO files);
 * ability to use case preserving (and even sensitivity!);
 * ability to use uid's and gid's on the filesystem.

Users in general can enjoy such benefits since it is expected to have
more HFS+ filesystems in use, as Apple has announced Macintoshes for
ix86-64, besides the filesystem being already supported by PowerPC
systems since the beginning.

List of rpms provided by this srpm:
hfsprogs (x86_64, i586)
hfsprogs-debuginfo (x86_64, i586)

Maintainer: Vitaly Lipatov

ACL:
@qa_p7