On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 10:27 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: > Craig White wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 09:22 -0500, 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? > >> > > ---- > > fdisk -l /dev/sdb > > > > will list all of the partitions and if I recall correctly, there are a > > few partitions on an Apple HFS drive. > > > > One of them will be large and that's the one you will want to mount. > > Note that in the past, if the last mount was a dirty dismount, I was > > unable to mount it in anything but read only mode. > > > > Crai > > Fdisk tells me there's no valid partition table. I removed and replaced > this drive because it has been erratic and the Mac shop told her it was > defective and it's total failure was imminent! > > I can however mount it as Ian suggests and I can display and navigate > through the directories. > > I did not know about hfsplus and that was the key to getting this far. > She still has a few files on it she would like to retrieve if possible. > I don't know which ones however but being able to get this far > encourages me. She may be looking for image files that I might be able > to get to? She is not here presently but at least I wont look like a > complete idiot if I ask what she needs from it. > ---- files will almost certainly be in the Users folder... mkdir /mnt/mac-disk mount -t hfsplus /dev/sdb9 /mnt/mac-disk mkdir /home/mac-disk-backup cp -r /mnt/mac-disk/Users/* /home/mac-disk-backup or you can be choosier if you wish... ls -l /mnt/mac-disk/Users/* ... Craig
