Accessing Mac Partition Files

[Juan Manuel Palacios]

	Apart from everything else that has been said already about HFS+ 
support under Linux, you should know some of the *relevant* technical 
details. You cannot view the contents of an HFS+ formatted partition 
with the standard "ls" utility because there's no support for the 
filesystem in the kernel. Only filesystems that have support either 
*inside* the kernel or as modules can be seamlessly integrated into the 
file hierarchy and therefore their contents can be manipulated without 
any add-ons.

	As said already that is not the case for HFS+, as opposed to 
traditional HFS (its contents *can*be manipulated with ls, mv, 
cp,etc.), so you are going to need other tools to view that partition's 
contents and to manipulate them. As someone else suggested there is an 
rpm named hfsplusutils.ppc.rpm you'll have to install. Do a :

rpm -q hfsplusutils <-- to see if you have it installed, and
rpm -qi hfsplusutils <-- to view some info on the contents of the 
package. Provide the full path to the rpm if it's not installed.

	If I recall correctly (long time since I last used it) this package 
installs something that goes by the name of "hfsls" (or was that 
"lshfs"?... anyone?), which must be used to view the contents of an 
HFS+ formatted partition. Similar utilities are used for moving files 
around: "hfsmv", "hfscp" and so on. Check to see if the thing is 
"hfs<regular-utility>" or "<regular-utility>hfs". If anyone could chime 
in to clarify the names of these I'd appreciate it.

	But please keep in mind Glen, this software is considered experimental 
and there is no telling if it can harm your data or not, and how. I 
have not used them very much myself, bare in mind!

	Hope that helps. Sincerely,...


		Juan.


On Sunday, January 19, 2003, at 04:14  PM, Glen Foy 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
>
>