[parted-devel] hfs vs. hfsplus

[Curtis Gedak]

Hi Brian,

I just found the hfsplus-tools package on Fedora [1] so it looks like 
Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, and openSUSE all have mkfs.hfs AND mkfs.hfsplus.

[1] https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=2042

 > Should we switch to using mkfs.hfsplus and fsck.hfsplus (on Fedora
 > fsck.hfs is a symlink to fsck.hfsplus)?
 >
 > Plain hfs is ancient at this point, and if I'm reading the comments in
 > the hfs resize code it is supposed to work fine with hfs+ so I think
 > it's probably time to switch.

I agree.  I think making the switch to hfs+ for the tests should be okay.

Regards,
Curtis