reading a ydl partition from X

[nathan r. hruby]

On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Will Wade wrote:

> heres the pdisk output:
> /dev/rdisk1  map block size=512
>     #:                 type name                  length   base      ( 
> size )
>     1:  Apple_partition_map Apple                     63 @ 1
>     2:     Apple_Driver_ATA*Macintosh                 54 @ 64
>     3:     Apple_Driver_ATA*Macintosh                 74 @ 118
>     4:   Apple_Driver_IOKit Macintosh                512 @ 192
>     5:        Apple_Patches Patch Partition          512 @ 704
>     6:            Apple_HFS untitled             2048000 @ 1216      
> (1000.0M)
>     7:      Apple_Bootstrap untitled               20481 @ 2049216   ( 
> 10.0M)
>     8:      Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap                  262145 @ 2069697   
> (128.0M)
>     9:      Apple_UNIX_SVR2 untitled             8388609 @ 2331842   (  
> 4.0G)
>    10:      Apple_UNIX_SVR2 untitled           230534269 @ 10720451  
> (109.9G)
> 
> number 8 is what Im intrested in so I thought I should type:
>   mount -t hfs /dev/disk1s8 /Volumes/OldIMac

You sure about that?  It look very much like a swap partition, which is
very much not a hfs formatted partition (or ext2 for that matter).  in
fact, all of your YDL partitions will probably be ext2, which OSX can not
read by default.  lucky for you there's a ext2 kenerl module for OSX :)

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsx/

-n
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