Fedora Users — Re: Read Apple hard drive -

On 11 Feb 2008, at 14:22, Bob Goodwin wrote:

   I have a hard drive removed from my daughters Power Mac G4 plugged

   into an F-8 computer. fdisk sees it as /dev/sdb but that's about as

   far is it goes, nothing relative to file type, etc.

   Is it possible to get a directory listing or extract any data from

   it in the Fedora computer. I suspect not, but thought I would ask?

There is kernel support for the HFSPlus file system, so there should be no problem with reading the disk. You may have to specify the file type from a terminal window, e.g.

$ mount -t hfsplus /dev/<whatever> /mnt

There may be a slight difference from earlier versions of Fedora, my F8 box now sees my Apple external drive as owned by nobody, group nobody, which was not the case before. Whatever, it is still possible to read it without too much bother, though you would be well advised to follow Craig's suggestion to be sure about which partition to mount.

Amend your fstab file accordingly if you are going to be making a habit of mounting this disk.

Best wishes,

Ian