Re: [BLUG] case insensitivity and more (was: Mac owner)

I believe case sensitivity in Mac OS X is a feature of the HFS+ file
system but it is disabled by default. You can enable it by Mac OS
Extended (case sensitive) as the file system type when you format a
volume in Disk Utility. However I'm not sure if there is a way to
enable this after a volume is formatted or for the boot volume.

Andrew

On Jun 19, 2009, at 1:22 PM, Michael Schultheiss wrote:

> Steven Black wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 10:49:38PM -0500, Scott Blaydes wrote:
>>
>> I checked, as I thought I'd seen an option about it...
>> * http://www.macfixit.com/staticpages/index.php?page=2003111009264885
>> * http://support.apple.com/kb/TA21400?viewlocale=en_US
>>
>> Mac OS X Server as of 10.3 had the capacity to have case-sensitive
>> files. Now, journalling started out in Mac OS X Server 10.2, but
>> didn't
>> make it to the desktop until 10.3, so it is possible that the latest
>> versions of Mac OS X Desktop now have the option to be case
>> sensitive.
>
> I've got a 10.5.7 Desktop and after a few minutes of poking around
> Google and the OS X interface I didn't see a way to enable case
> sensitivity. I typically run Linux on my Apple hardware but need at
> least one OS X box for work.
>
>>> Sometimes I feel like a Unix grey beard.
>>
>> "Here's a dime. Go buy yourself a real computer."
>
> Stupid inflation - last time I saw that it was a nickel :)
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