Re: How do I read a Mac disk on Linux.
On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 04:10:49PM +0800, 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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> 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.
>
Could be that you need to recompile the kernel and under advanced
partitioning schemes (don't remember the exact location, but near the
file systems) choose mac partitioning scheme. Also chose hfs file
system support.
No personal experience with that though.
> 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).
>
>
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>
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> Cheers
> John
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