Mounting a Mac drive

[Jonathan Younker]

I believe it's OS9, so I'll give the HFS mount a shot.
All this to recover email...
Thanks for the help,
Jonathan.

At 03:39 PM 7/10/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>Mac OS 9 or X. Don't know if it matters. Mac os 9 and below are HFS file
>systems. Should be able to put the drive in and mount it with a mount -t
>hfs command. You'll need the device and partition number. /dev/sdb1,
>/dev/hdb1 or whatever depending if it's scsi or IDE.
>
>Something like:
>mount -t hfs /dev/hdb2 /mnt/macdrive
>
>I assume os X is still HFS??? Anybody? Most macs have OS 9 installed
>also with 10 so for OS 9 to read files I would assume its still HFS.
>
>
>
>On Wed, 2002-07-10 at 15:22, Jonathan Younker wrote:
> > Has anyone had success mounting a Mac hard-drive under Linux?  If so, what
> > type did you use?
> > We've had a Mac G4 fail, and I want to know if it's possible to extract 
> the
> > data from it using my Linux box.  I haven't found any how-to's relating to
> > this subject.
> > Thanks,
> > Jonathan.
> >
> >
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