On Mon, 2025-04-21 at 21:16 -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > > One potential problem is that the userspace utilities to format, > > check, repair HFS/HFS+ utilities don't really exist. There is the HFS > > Utilities[1] which is packaged in Debian as hfsutils, but it only > > supports HFS, not HFS+, and it can only format an HFS file system; it > > doesn't have a fsck analog. This is going to very limit the ability > > to run xfstests for HFS or HFS+. > > > > [1] https://www.mars.org/home/rob/proj/hfs/ > > How about hfsprogs, it has mkfs and fsck tools. Though it /is/ APSL > licensed... That's what I use and maintain in Debian. I have been trying to reach out to Apple to get it relicensed under Apache or MIT but I unfortunately got a reply. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
