[wplug] Mounting Mac HDD?

[T Quine]

So, if you try to mount an HFS+ filesystem under linux (or older versions of 
MacOS) you'll sucessfully mount it, but it'll be a read-only filesystem with 
a text file telling you that it's a HFS filesystem.  Pretty clever, I 
thought, if not frustrating.

QUINE



>From: David Gerard Matthews <dgm4+ at pitt.edu>
>Reply-To: wplug at wplug.org
>To: wplug at wplug.org
>Subject: Re: [wplug] Mounting Mac HDD?
>Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 22:21:17 -0400
>
>Newer versions of MacOS can also use HFS+ filesystem, which I believe
>isn't supported by Linux.  And also, as John mentioned, even HFS (withou
>the +) isn't usually supported by default in most kernels, since I think
>it's still officially "experimental".
>-dgm
>
>
>harrold at sage.che.pitt.edu wrote:
> >
> > what type of filesystem are you trying to mount it as? i believe mac's 
>use
> > hfs which you might have to recompile your kernel to support.
> >
> > is it hanging because you put an entry in the fstab and it cannot mount
> > that, or is it hanging because when you're booting the ide channels are
> > being probed?
> >
> > are you able to run fdisk and see the partitions?
> >
> > --
> > john
> >
> > Sometime in July Falenski, Matt assaulted keyboard and produced...
> >
> > |I was wondering if anyone here has mounted a Macintosh HDD
> > |under Linux?  Its a Western Digital 4.3G EIDE from a G3.
> > |
> > |It would hang on bootup. I want to try to pull any data off
> > |of it that I can. (Mostly word & excel files)
> > |
> > |I've mounted nt, 2000, and dos drives but just cant seem to get
> > |this one to go.  Any ideas?
> > |
> > |tnx
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