Re: How do I read a Mac disk on Linux.

[Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com>]

John Summerfield wrote:
> I have an external (USB)  disk that has Linux files iin a Mac HFS+ disk.
>
> It's connected to my IA32 peecee:
>
> Parted sees it thus:
> Echidna:~# parted /dev/sda
> GNU Parted 1.4.24
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>
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>
> Using /dev/sda
> Information: The operating system thinks the geometry on /dev/sda is
> 30401/255/63.  Therefore, cylinder 1024 ends at 8032.499M.
> (parted) print
> Disk geometry for /dev/sda: 0.000-238475.179 megabytes
> Disk label type: mac
> Minor    Start       End     Filesystem  Name                  Flags
> 1          0.000      0.031              Apple
> 3        128.031 238475.171              Apple_HFS_Untitled_2
> (parted)
>
> I've installed hfsplus and hfsutils but I don't see how to access it.
>
> The peecee is running Woody.
>
> Is there a way to access the data on the disk w/o attaching it to my 
> powerbook?
> (using the powerbook entails a visit to the site).

  did you try to mount the disk?

  from partition table it looks like this might work:

mount -t hfsplus /dev/sda3 /mnt/macDisk

  you need mac partition support in kernel (looks like you have that 
otherwise parted would not recognize partitions, I guess) and hfsplus 
filesystem support in kernel. You also need support for USB mass storage 
(these appear as scsi disks, e.g. /dev/sda)

	erik