Mounting a Mac drive

[Cyber Source]

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.
On Wed, 2002-07-10 at 15:57, Jonathan Younker wrote:

    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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