Re: mounting a HFS drive on a Linux machine clobbers it?

[Kim Cascone <kim@anechoicmedia.com>]

On Sep 26, 2005, at 12:02 PM, Martin Habets wrote:
> So what is it? HFS or HFS+? Big difference for Linux cause different 
> drivers
> are used (hfs and I think hfsplus).
> Not sure if OS X still recognizes a HFS drive. Maybe the partition 
> table on
> the drive is no longer recognized. Wat do fdisk (in Linux and OS X) 
> make
> of it?
I'm sorry, you are correct: the 300G is indeed an HFS+ drive formatted 
from a OS X machine...


> How did you partition and format the drive initially?
using Disk Utils in OS X

so again, why would mounting a HFS+ drive on a ext3 machine (Ubuntu PPC 
5.04) make it so that it won't mount on an OS X machine afterwards?

and what can I do to fix this? short of reformatting the entire drive 
again and losing my backups?