Re: [gentoo-alt] case-insensitive file system on mac

[John Gibson]

On Apr 20, 2008, at 11:17 AM, Qiangning Hong wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I've got a Macbook Pro running Leopard and am installing Gentoo Prefix
> on it.  When i read the doc about a case-sensitive file system is
> assumed, I checked and found that my file system is case-insensitive.
> I googled and found it is time-consume to convert the file system
> (backup the whole system, reformat, reinstall os and restore the
> backup).  So here I have two questions:
>
> 1. If I don't convert, how many/what packages would break?  If they
> are not essential and I don't need them, I would rather live with the
> current file system.
>
> 2. Can I re-partition my hard driver and create a case sensitive
> volume without reformat the whole disk?  I know Disk Utility can
> shrink the partition and create a new one in the free space, but I
> failed to find out how to specify the new partition as a
> case-sensitive one.
>
> Thanks!
>
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I run a MacBook Pro as well.  I found that you can just create a  
sparse image with a case sensitive filesystem and use that for prefix  
portage.

John

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