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You should be able to dmesg or check your /var/log/messages to see how the drive gets detected, then "cfdisk /dev/hd* or /dev/sd* whatever and that will tell you the partition format of the drive.
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On Wed, 2002-07-10 at 15:57, Jonathan Younker wrote:
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<PRE><FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>I believe it's OS9, so I'll give the HFS mount a shot.</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>All this to recover email...</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Thanks for the help,</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Jonathan.</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>At 03:39 PM 7/10/2002 -0400, you wrote:</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>>Mac OS 9 or X. Don't know if it matters. Mac os 9 and below are HFS file</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>>systems. Should be able to put the drive in and mount it with a mount -t</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>>hfs command. You'll need the device and partition number. /dev/sdb1,</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>>/dev/hdb1 or whatever depending if it's scsi or IDE.</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>>Something like:</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>>mount -t hfs /dev/hdb2 /mnt/macdrive</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>>I assume os X is still HFS??? Anybody? Most macs have OS 9 installed</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>>also with 10 so for OS 9 to read files I would assume its still HFS.</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>>On Wed, 2002-07-10 at 15:22, Jonathan Younker wrote:</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> > Has anyone had success mounting a Mac hard-drive under Linux? If so, what</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> > type did you use?</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> > We've had a Mac G4 fail, and I want to know if it's possible to extract </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> the</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> > data from it using my Linux box. I haven't found any how-to's relating to</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> > this subject.</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> > Thanks,</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> > Jonathan.</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> ></FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> ></FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> > This message has been scanned for viruses and</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> > and is believed to be clean.</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>>--</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>>-------------------------------------------</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>>Justin Bennett</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>>Red Hat (Linux) Certified Engineer</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>>Network Administrator</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Jonathan T. Younker</FONT></FONT></I>
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