Sharing partitions - Possible?

Is it possible and how to share a partition? My HDD is partitioned in two parts. When I connect another machine to my macbook it shows the home dir with all the folders: documents, library, music etc. and nothing else.
Here are my questions:
1. how to add/remove shared folders?
2. How to share the partition so that when I connect to my macbook from another PC or Mac it will be also visible?

With Sharepoints...
http://www.hornware.com/sharepoints/
Sharepoints for smb...
http://lowendmac.com/mac2win/04/0623.html
You can relatively easily setup Shares, Groups, Users, Rights for both AFP and SMB with it.

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Time Machine AND File Sharing: Partitioning possible?

Hi everyone,
I'm thinking about a TC setup where 2 Macs would connect to it and do regular backups using Time Machine. At the same time I'd like to use TC's hard drive for file sharing purposes. I believe that this is possible. What I don't know is:
Is it possible to partition the drive in order to set a limit to what space is available to Time Machine? If not, is there another way (ratio setting) to limit this?
Thanks
Björn

From what I've seen, the answer is no. (1) you'd have to be able to access the disk in such a manner as to partition. it does not show up in Disk Utility. Perhaps Terminal might have options. (2) As far as I've seen, there is no ratio setting. TC just backs up all Macs on the network using Leopard that have Time Machine backups set to the TC.
You can actually do what you want without changing anything. The TC HDD shows up as a network drive. Time Machine backs up until full. Files on the drive would take up space. So, until it's full, you can put shareable files on it. once it's full, you have delete backups or make space through some other method.

How can I delete a self mounting shared partition in Keychain ?

Hi,
When you accept to store username & password of a shared partition or folder in Keychain, later they are set to automount and log by themselves. How can I later delete those username & password from Keychain ?
I tried but Keychain is not easy to go through.
Regards.

Keychain Access First Aid, select the login.keychain, and the search for the keychain you want to delete. When you find it, highlight it, and hit the delete key.

Dual booting /w mac mini and shared partition

I bought a mac mini a few months ago, I wanted to replace an old macbook which died.
It had osx 10.4 on it, probably a beta or early bootcamp. I had a tri-boot system with
a "shared partition", but when I've tried on my mini I get into problems.
I'd like to have at least a windows 7, and osx partition and a larger, shared partition on same drive.
On my last attempt I left the drive as single osx. Let boot camp partition it, booted to cd, installed..
After installing, and updating, windows I partitioned the drive for the "shared partition" and rebooted.
I could reboot into windows but osx would hang while booting. I had to download and re-install the system.
BTW I am using a usb cd/dvd-rw drive to boot into my windows cd
Can someone help me figure out what I did wrong or provide a howto, guide or link to get me through this?
Thanks for visiting
Geo

What year/model Mac mini, new, used? What Mac OS are you using?
Pre 10.7 you could add two OS's and an extra partition without too much problem (running rEFIt, BootLoader, etc) but 10.7 added a wrinkle to that.
With Lion and any other OS (10.7 and Windows, etc.) you actually already have a "triple boot" system with the invisible "Repair Partition" added and Apple doesn't support any more.
Here's an older post but basically the same answer except with Lion and W7 adding an exception to the rule.
People have added more partitions but you would have to do a search here or do a Yahoo/Google to find the directions for doing it on one HD.
(I've only used rEFIt and it worked fine for me, not doing it on one HD, I have a MacPro so it's easier to just use another HD)
Other options,
You can always install the Mac OS on an external HD or even have the external as your Data drive or depending on how large or how many files you want to transfer there's also the Thumb drives.
And there's also Parallels/VMWare that you can use to transfer stuff until you need to boot into Windows natively.

Shared partition creation (SAN EVA 4400) for OCR/Vote andASM on linux RHEL5

Hi all,
We are going to install database (Oracle 10g) with RAC on Linux Red Hat Enterprise 5. The storage we are using is SAN shared storage, out SAN vendor has finished to configure and present the dsk storage (500 Gb) to the 2 servers, the name of the volume group is VG_ORADATA. this volume will be used for OCR, VOting disk and ASM (database file).
Our problem is to create and configure the shared partition for the 2 servers.
Here is what i want to do, i want to create:
ocr_partition (25 Gb) : for OCR
vote_partition (25 Gb): for Voting disk
oradata_part1 (150 Gb): for database (ASM)
oradata_part2 (150 Gb): for database (ASM)
oradata_part3 (150 Gb): for database (ASM)
The problem is how to create these partiton an dto mount them for the 2 servers, what is the tools we have to use for this tasks. Can i use LVM (Logical Volume Manager) in linux for this tasks.
Thanks for the help and need your help as it's very urgent for us.
Thank you
Raitsarevo.

My thoughts.
1. Your OCR partition size is too high by several orders of magnitudes. Read the docs and size it appropriately.
2. Your Voting disk partition size is also far too large. Again read the docs and size it appropriately.
3. If you have RAC you have one and only one database (not 3)
4. ASM is not a database and requires no room on your SAN. ASM is an instance that must reside on your servers (nodes).
5. Where are you putting your flashback recovery area, archived redo logs, flashback logs, etc?
6. Where are you putting your online backup files?
7. If you have ASM throw the LVM away. It will do nothing for you other than eat CPU.

Dual booting and sharing partition

Hi,
I am planning on installing Xubuntu and Arch on my laptop during the christmas break and have been reading around about how to best do this. I want to share the /home directory between these two installs to minimize duplicating files. I would like to know if there are any other folders that can be shared between two systems like Xubuntu and Arch.
Secondly, I would like to know if both Xubuntu and Arch can be installed on logical partitions within the same extended partitions.

This in only my opinion (there are many, many ways partitioning a dual-boot system), but I would personally not share /home (or any other system partition for that matter). Too much hassle (persmissions on your .dotfiles will be tricky), and not enough space savings to be worth the trouble.
Instead I would create a ‘extra’ partition and use that instead of /home for storing personal files/multimedia file in both OS’s. I would give it a label like ‘Multimedia’ or ‘Shared’ or ‘Data’ or whatever, and make this partition large enough to hold all my stuff.
Then just mount this shared partition to wherever you like in both OS’s, via /etc/fstab
Secondly)
Yes logical partitions are fine for installing (somebody correct me if I am wrong, but my understanding is that Linux does not care about being installed a on Primary or Logical partition). Just make sure you setup your bootloader properly.
Also the *biggest* advantage of using Logical partions is that you won’t really have a limit for the number of partitions you can create for each OS.

NTFS vs ext3 for a Shared Partition?

Since the journaling of ext3 is disabled when it is accessed through windows, would it be better to just use NTFS on a shared partition, or does NTFS have any disadvantages as well?

I've used NTFS for sharing data between my Linux and Windows installations for years, and I've never had any problems. You'll probably want to defrag it occasionally though. I defrag my shared partition once every four months or so, if I can be bothered.
Just don't do what some new converts try to do and make your entire home folder an NTFS partition. Just mount --bind, or symlink, the shared partitions's Documents/Videos/Music/etc. folders onto their corresponding /home/user folders.
If that's what you're planning on doing.

Shared Partition Problems

Hey all -
So I've been having some issues with my shared ntfs partition on a dual boot setup ever since I created it. I have no problems until I boot into Windows, which then often detects "damage" to the partition. Windows then automatically tries to "fix" the partition, and I then discover that several files have had their contents replaced or deleted entirely. I have noted that this issue only seems to affect recently edited files. Any idea what may be causing this? I am considering changing my shared partition to some sort of FAT file system to see if I have more success there.
/etc/fstab:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
# <file system>    <dir> <type>    <options>    <dump> <pass>
# /dev/sdb9 LABEL=Arch
UUID=b0ae0fb0-3fec-46c5-9a79-f46935dae11f / ext4 rw,relatime,data=ordered    0 1
# /dev/sdb3 LABEL=LRS_ESP
UUID=E4F2-02E5    /boot/efi vfat    rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro 0 2
# /dev/sdb8 LABEL=Shared
UUID=49C8855445D787D3 /run/media/Shared ntfs-3g rw,relatime,auto    0 0
# /dev/sdb5 LABEL=Windows8_OS
UUID=5444F51E44F50410 /run/media/Windows    ntfs-3g rw,relatime,auto    0 0

JammaB wrote:Still having problems; I think that Windows may be indexing the file system, and referring to its memory of the partition instead of the partition itself--does anyone know of a solution/workaround?
This wouldn't surprise me at all. Windows is notorious for thinking that it should be the only OS on any given computer. I think this is exemplified by its use of localtime for the hardware clock, its insistence on overwriting the boot sector, and its inability to adhere to standards such as bios booting & GPT partitioning and vice versa.
The command to fully shut down a windows 8 system is reportedly what you have there in one site that I just found, but in another I found this:
shutdown \s \full \t 0
TBH, like ewaller, I have never seen this mythical beast in the wild... it kind of scares me. I was of the opinion that with windows 7 things were pretty alright for the most part, so from the little I have seen of windows 8 just kind of makes me nauseated in how much it changed. Also any operating system which, without being a joke, instructs the user to rely on the "charms bar" should not be taken seriously.
Edit: I actually don't know what this magical bar of charms does, but it rather makes me think of marshmallows in my cereal.
Edit2: Out of curiousity, it this a truly shared data partition, or are you mounting the actual system partition?
Edit3: Oh yeah, that was some excellent use of code tags there in post #4.
Last edited by WonderWoofy (2013-06-05 03:55:30)

Scanner sharing not possible

I have two scanners (Canon Canoscan 3200 F, Lexmark X1190) connected to a PowerMac G4 (Mac OS X 10.4.11) via Firewire (the Canon) and USB (the Lexmark). In Image Capture I set up to share both the scanners. They appear on my MacBook Pro which is connected to my local network. But Image Capture tells me that they are not connected although both devices uses TWAIN drivers which are installed on my MacBook Pro, too. How can I scan over the network? All sources on the internet claim setting up the scanner sharing feature is very easy. It is - but it doesn't work.
Steffen

Oh right, that possibility. Digital Cameras which mount as a disk image when you tether them to the Mac can be shared. Not all Digital Cameras offer that ability. I forget which ones offered that capability, though I wouldn't be surprised if this list includes some of them, since it mentions use of Image Capture with Digital Cameras:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106523

Library sharing question - Possible to block edits?

I would like to share all pictures, in all albums, in all libraries to the public without allowing any edits/uploads. Is this possible?
So far I only see where I can invite others via email, but they are able to upload and edit which I do not want to be possible.

Asking others to join a group libraryis a collaborative thing, where there is one owner, and other contributors. All must have revel accounts and then the library will show up in their account. You can not limit their capabilities except that they already can not delete photos that they did not add themselves.
Sharing of albums withing libraries is more limited and does not require others to have a revel account.
If you wish to share everything for viewing only by anyone, you could put everything in the library into a single album, disable downloads, and share the link. If you have more than one library, you could do a link an album in each library that contains all of the photos in the library.
If you then have some photos you wish to share with family or a group and you wish them to be able to download, you can put those photos into a different album in the library (they can be some of the same photos/videos in the public album) and enable downloads.
See this link for details:
FAQ: How do I share files in Revel?
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Specify datafile name for each partition - possible?

Is it possible to specify datafile to be used for each partition of a large table (in 10g or 11g)?

movilogo wrote:
Thanks for replies.
My intention is that Oracle access only the relevant datafile on disk depending on what query I execute.
I wanted to separate each datafile so that no unnecessary disk access happens.
So, I understand that I can specify tablespace for partitions and data will be written in underlying datafiles.True,
As such am not sure why you think oracle would unnecessary do disk access for anything in which he is not interested it or is not required even if your partiton happened to be in same tablespace
Regards

Moving Shared Members, Possible?

I know I can use load rule to "Allow Move" in order to make parent/child changes to the hierarchy. However, is there a way to use load rule to do the same for an alternate hierarchy (i.e. a hierarchy with shared members). I want to be able to move shared members around the alt hierarchy but could find a way of doing it.
Is this not possible?

the only automated way I know of to do it is to delete the dimension members and re-add them. I lie of course, you could write a routine using the API to do it. Of course you know you can do it manually in EAS, but that too can be a lot of work

Linux - OS X dual boot/encryption/shared partition suggestions?

Hi,
I've been wanting to encrypt my hard drive for a while and have a MacBook. Currently I have the following setup:
- sda1: GUID partition table
- sda2: OS X (~60GB)
- sda3: Arch (~15GB)
I mount my OS X partition using HFS+ (non-journaled) and keep everything in the OS X partition except for temp stuff on Linux (downloads I don't care about, various documents I might be working on but will eventually delete or move to OS X). This way, I have one repo for all my files. I use rsync to backup my Arch home dir to OS X and then use Carbon Copy Cloner to backup OS X to an external hard drive.
Now I'd like to do some encryption... but am not really sure how. Here's two scenarios I've considered after reading a bunch. Thoughts?
--- Option 1 ---
- sda1: GUID partition table
- sda2: HFS+ volume for OS X
--- TrueCrypt volume to be created and mounted at /home
- sda3: /boot for Linux
- sda4: Linux with dm-crypt/LUKS
--- just / (no LVM making separate partitions)
--- mount the OS X TrueCrypt volume for filesharing between OSs
Notes: I don't like this for a couple of reasons.
- I have to kind of guess at how much OS X will accumulate over time and make my TC volume for /home accordingly. If I ever run into issues... I'll have to backup, delete, make a new and larger TC volume and then copy it all over
--- Option 2 ---
- sda1: GUID partition table
- sda2: OS X
--- FireVault used on /home
- sda3: /boot for Linux
- sda4: Linux with dm-crypt/LUKS
--- take the plunge and just start keeping all my files on Linux instead of OS X (everything used to be on OS X and I'd just mount the HFS+ drive in Linux to access things)
--- perhaps create a TC volume file that can be used to share files between partitions via the OS X /Shared directory?
Notes: I like this better. Everything is encrypted and thus I can just estimate like 15-20GB for OS X and only keep OS X specific files there (iWork, i* files, etc.) and then make the rest of the disk available for Linux. Since dm-crypt can be used for the whole Linux partition I can let everything (/usr, /var, /home) grow however it wants and not worry about my bad partition size/TC container size predictions.
Remaining issues/questions:
- Still bummed that I can't just keep everything on one OS or the other and share unless I go the TrueCrypt container for OS X home route. I really like that feature now as, essentially, my Linux /home folder right now is just for .configs and temp... everything I actually care about is only in one place. I don't like the idea of having to "merge" two sets of documents I really care about and make the dir hierarchy work...
- Unanswered question remains of whether I can mount logical volumes on both OSs. If I have a logical HFS+ volume in an extended partition, can Linux mount that and vice versa (assuming the filesystem is readable by both, that is)?
- How others get around the issue of making partition size predictions when creating separate partitions for /home vs. /, /usr, etc.
- What partitions are nice to have on their own (besides /home)?
Any thoughts? Am I best just going with TrueCrypt? I've read a lot of people who vote against it due to the license, though I'm not clear on why exactly... just not "totally" open-source? For this reason, I guess I'm leaning toward the second option since I can use standard tools on each. I don't think that plausible deniability is a huge deal for me... though perhaps that could be seen as another advantage of TC? I'll shut up now. Serious thanks for any suggestions... I can't find hardly anything on OS X/Linux dual booting and the use of encryption.

Hi,
I've been wanting to encrypt my hard drive for a while and have a MacBook. Currently I have the following setup:
- sda1: GUID partition table
- sda2: OS X (~60GB)
- sda3: Arch (~15GB)
I mount my OS X partition using HFS+ (non-journaled) and keep everything in the OS X partition except for temp stuff on Linux (downloads I don't care about, various documents I might be working on but will eventually delete or move to OS X). This way, I have one repo for all my files. I use rsync to backup my Arch home dir to OS X and then use Carbon Copy Cloner to backup OS X to an external hard drive.
Now I'd like to do some encryption... but am not really sure how. Here's two scenarios I've considered after reading a bunch. Thoughts?
--- Option 1 ---
- sda1: GUID partition table
- sda2: HFS+ volume for OS X
--- TrueCrypt volume to be created and mounted at /home
- sda3: /boot for Linux
- sda4: Linux with dm-crypt/LUKS
--- just / (no LVM making separate partitions)
--- mount the OS X TrueCrypt volume for filesharing between OSs
Notes: I don't like this for a couple of reasons.
- I have to kind of guess at how much OS X will accumulate over time and make my TC volume for /home accordingly. If I ever run into issues... I'll have to backup, delete, make a new and larger TC volume and then copy it all over
--- Option 2 ---
- sda1: GUID partition table
- sda2: OS X
--- FireVault used on /home
- sda3: /boot for Linux
- sda4: Linux with dm-crypt/LUKS
--- take the plunge and just start keeping all my files on Linux instead of OS X (everything used to be on OS X and I'd just mount the HFS+ drive in Linux to access things)
--- perhaps create a TC volume file that can be used to share files between partitions via the OS X /Shared directory?
Notes: I like this better. Everything is encrypted and thus I can just estimate like 15-20GB for OS X and only keep OS X specific files there (iWork, i* files, etc.) and then make the rest of the disk available for Linux. Since dm-crypt can be used for the whole Linux partition I can let everything (/usr, /var, /home) grow however it wants and not worry about my bad partition size/TC container size predictions.
Remaining issues/questions:
- Still bummed that I can't just keep everything on one OS or the other and share unless I go the TrueCrypt container for OS X home route. I really like that feature now as, essentially, my Linux /home folder right now is just for .configs and temp... everything I actually care about is only in one place. I don't like the idea of having to "merge" two sets of documents I really care about and make the dir hierarchy work...
- Unanswered question remains of whether I can mount logical volumes on both OSs. If I have a logical HFS+ volume in an extended partition, can Linux mount that and vice versa (assuming the filesystem is readable by both, that is)?
- How others get around the issue of making partition size predictions when creating separate partitions for /home vs. /, /usr, etc.
- What partitions are nice to have on their own (besides /home)?
Any thoughts? Am I best just going with TrueCrypt? I've read a lot of people who vote against it due to the license, though I'm not clear on why exactly... just not "totally" open-source? For this reason, I guess I'm leaning toward the second option since I can use standard tools on each. I don't think that plausible deniability is a huge deal for me... though perhaps that could be seen as another advantage of TC? I'll shut up now. Serious thanks for any suggestions... I can't find hardly anything on OS X/Linux dual booting and the use of encryption.

[SOLVED] Can't install; dual-boot sharing partitions?

Hi, I'm currently dual-booting Linux Mint 14 and Windows 7 on my laptop, and decided to replace Mint with Arch. Somehow, though, I don't think I ever divided my HDD into seperate partitions for Linux and Windows. Using gparted (or fdisk), /dev/sda (my HDD) has essentially got a Dell utility partition (100MiB, sda1), a recovery partition (15GiB, sda2), a 1 MiB unallocated space, and a 284 GiB section labeled "OS" (sda3). I can't touch the partition on Linux because it's always in use.
I can't get through with the installation because of this, and can't find an answer no matter how often or in-depth I RTFM. If someone could point me in the right direction, that'd be great.
Thanks.
http://imgur.com/8qfpbbW
EDIT: This has been [SOLVED].
Last edited by SELame (2013-07-29 22:55:13)

I would recommend downloading the gparted cd here, and setting up your partitioning scheme from there. I am quite suprised about your system setup though, you may want to nuke it and start again because something weird is going on.
Yeah, I'm not sure exactly what's happening. I'll look into using gparted as a LiveCD, but I'd rather not wipe everything if I can help it.
I don't know if this is the case, but Ubuntu had (has?) an option to install to an image on the windows partition (wubi), rather than a partition of it's own. It's possible that Mint adapted this for their spinoff, and would explain why you only have a Windows partition.
I recommend that you modify your partition scheme if you want to install Arch. Shrink your Windows partition as much as the Windows partitioner will allow (avoid gparted and similar tools for this purpose, the Windows in-built partitioner should be adequate), then create an extended partition to house your Arch partition, swap partition, data partition, or whatever partitions you want.
Yeah, I installed Mint from a mounted image in Daemon Tools, so that could explain it. I'll look into shrinking my Windows partition and seeing if I can somehow remove Mint from my Windows partition. I still have grub and all, if that makes any difference.
there is a mint4win, do you see something like this on boot? http://i.imgur.com/sPOMx.png
Yep! I may have installed mint4win. Let me look into that.

If load sharing is possible by this 10:2 ratio?

Hi,
I have two different isp's with different bandwidth.In this networks are advertised by eigrp protocol & packets are sending ip load sharing per packets configuration.
1.Isp-1 having a 10Mbps bandwidth & Isp-2 having a 2Mbps bandwidth
In this scenario if it is possible to do the load sharing ? If yes Please explain.

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I think it's possible, but I'm far from being an EIGRP expert. BTW, PfR PIRO should also be able to do this, and do it based on actual link loading.
Also BTW, I would highly recommend against doing per packet load sharing. In theory, IP doesn't care, but many application using IP do care.

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