Read Apple hard drive -
Craig White
craig at tobyhouse.com
Mon Feb 11 17:00:10 UTC 2008
On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 10:27 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 09:22 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> >
> >> I have a hard drive removed from my daughters Power Mac G4 plugged
> >> into an F-8 computer. fdisk sees it as /dev/sdb but that's about as
> >> far is it goes, nothing relative to file type, etc.
> >>
> >> Is it possible to get a directory listing or extract any data from
> >> it in the Fedora computer. I suspect not, but thought I would ask?
> >>
> > ----
> > fdisk -l /dev/sdb
> >
> > will list all of the partitions and if I recall correctly, there are a
> > few partitions on an Apple HFS drive.
> >
> > One of them will be large and that's the one you will want to mount.
> > Note that in the past, if the last mount was a dirty dismount, I was
> > unable to mount it in anything but read only mode.
> >
> > Crai
>
> Fdisk tells me there's no valid partition table. I removed and replaced
> this drive because it has been erratic and the Mac shop told her it was
> defective and it's total failure was imminent!
>
> I can however mount it as Ian suggests and I can display and navigate
> through the directories.
>
> I did not know about hfsplus and that was the key to getting this far.
> She still has a few files on it she would like to retrieve if possible.
> I don't know which ones however but being able to get this far
> encourages me. She may be looking for image files that I might be able
> to get to? She is not here presently but at least I wont look like a
> complete idiot if I ask what she needs from it.
>
----
files will almost certainly be in the Users folder...
mkdir /mnt/mac-disk
mount -t hfsplus /dev/sdb9 /mnt/mac-disk
mkdir /home/mac-disk-backup
cp -r /mnt/mac-disk/Users/* /home/mac-disk-backup
or you can be choosier if you wish...
ls -l /mnt/mac-disk/Users/* ...
Craig
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