zoe@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > I have a 160gb hard drive (with external firewire enclosure) which I > would like to back up and put to use, as the 4,3 gig that I have at > the moment really isn't enough. At the moment it is HFS+ (I don't > believe it is possible to mount this, is it?) and contains all that > remains of my Mac User days. I have a friend with a powerbook which I > could borrow, however it only has a CD burner. I am planning to buy > up the DVD burner on Monday when they will be in stock. Good luck! It might be worth trying to mount that disk. Linux does have support for HFS+ partitions: the documentation states: # If you say Y here, you will be able to mount extended format # Macintosh-formatted hard drive partitions with full read-write access. # # This file system is often called HFS+ and was introduced with # MacOS 8. It includes all Mac specific filesystem data such as # data forks and creator codes, but it also has several UNIX # style features such as file ownership and permissions. It looks as though Fedora has that module compiled in. It also has support for the Mac partition scheme. I don't know if you have a firewire adapter in your PC, or if it would be easier to take the hard drive out of its enclosure and try putting it in the PC. If you take a look through /var/log/dmesg, you should see something like this: # hdc: max request size: 128KiB # hdc: 80418240 sectors (41174 MB) w/1916KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(33) # hdc: cache flushes not supported # hdc: hdc1 hdc2 < hdc5 hdc6 > That last line will tell you which partitions Linux has detected. I imagine you'll only find one on that disk. Then try a mount /dev/hdc1 /misc I don't have any of the hardware in question, so I can't tell you "it will work" or "you will need to do x". But we'll try to help if you tell us how far you get. Hope this helps, James. -- James Wilkinson | "The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, Exeter Devon UK | like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo." E-mail address: james | -- Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters @westexe.demon.co.uk |
