On 2015-05-16 09:39, Ward... James Ward wrote:
> Can anyone help me?
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> From: "Ward... James Ward" <james.e.ward AT gmail DOT com>
> Date: May 15, 2015 6:03 AM
> Subject: Filesystem for OSX/BackupPC external drive
> To: <james.kyle AT mac DOT com>
> Cc:
> 
> James,
> 
> First of all, thanks so much for the lovely drop in BackupPC! That's
> even easier than Linux package install!
> 
> BackupPC came up running and ready to go after I installed it from
> MacPorts. My only problem is, I want to use a 1T external drive for
> the pool. While BackupPC finds the HFS+ internal drive fine, when I
> format the external drive to HFS+, everything is owned:
> -unknown:-unknown and BackupPC fails it's startup check for a useful
> filesystem and aborts.
> 
> How can I format that external drive so that BackupPC can use it?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> James

Sure, but before starting with the immediate issue, I'd be remiss if I 
didn't mention that this is probably a BAD IDEA.  I'd expect performance 
to be fairly dismal, and all kinds of terrible things can happen when 
the drive is unplugged.  For now, I'll assume you have a use case which 
consists of a small amount of data you don't care about.

OSX assumes a new external volume is portable, and since it can't make 
sense of account and file ownership across computers, it simply disabled 
this feature.  You can enable ownership in the Info window for the 
volume.

Not that it should be in one of the Mac OS Extended formats, and you'll 
want to uncheck the "Ignore ownership and permissions" option at the 
bottom.



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