Accessing Mac Partition Files

Neben Kabon yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Sun Jan 19 13:25:01 2003


Isn't there an issue with Apple's HFS+ filesystem and 
linux?  I believe you can only read and write to HFS?

On Sun, 19 Jan 2003 15:14:09 -0500
  Glen Foy <apple-dev@butter.toast.net> wrote:
>Hi Joe,
>
>Thanks for the reply.  I created a new directory, /mac, 
>and got the partition to mount with:
>
>mount -t hfs /dev/hda9 /mac
>
>But none of the sub-directories were visible, only 3 or 4 
>text files, one entitled "Where have all of your files 
>gone?"  Any suggestions?
>
>Thanks,
>Glen
>
>
>On Sunday, January 19, 2003, at 05:37 AM, Joe Villari 
>wrote:
>
>>Basically you have to mount the partition. as root mount 
>>/dev/hdaWHATEVER_NUMBER_IS_OSX (mine is /dev/hda9). The 
>>you can access 
>>it. You can add a mount point to /mnt and have it mount 
>>automatically 
>>at boot, which is what I do (/mac).
>>
>>Just remeber if you're using MOL you'll have to umount 
>>the parititon 
>>otherwise the drive will show up as locked.
>>
>>Joe
>>
>>Glen Foy wrote:
>>
>>>I've just installed YDL 2.3 on a Titanium PowerBook 
>>>(2002).  Mac OS X 
>>>and YDL share the internal drive.  How do I access the 
>>>files on the 
>>>OS X partition from Linux?
>>>
>>>Thanks a heap,
>>>Glen
>>>
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