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Ubuntu and Mac hard-drive?

  • 25-11-2010 2:23pm
    #1
    Dan_Solo
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 10,087 ✭✭✭✭


    I'm trying to rescue some data on a Mac formatted SATA laptop drive and I only have an IDE external housing. :( I've booted a Dell into PuppyLinux with the Mac drive inside, but Puppy doesn't seem to read Mac HDs.
    I'm putting Ubuntu onto a USB, but does anybody know if this will read the drive?
    Thanks!


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  • #2
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,074 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    How are you trying to read the drive - what commands did you run? If I understand it correctly, a HPFS drive won't come up automatically, you have to mount it explicitly. There are some ideas on this (old) page about Ubuntu, I can't say for sure whether they'll work on whatever you're using - just try them and see.

    What does the following command return?
    sudo /sbin/sfdisk -l

    Ideally, somewhere in the results you'll see a partition labeled "Macintosh" or "HFS". Make a note of its id (e.g. /dev/sdb1) and try to mount it:
    sudo mkdir /mnt/mac
    sudo mount -t hfsplus /dev/sdb1 /mnt/mac
    Then do a ls /mnt/mac to see what's there.

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #3
    Dan_Solo
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 10,087 ✭✭✭✭Dan_Solo


    I could try all that... but Kubuntu reads the drive straight off! I guess that's why Ubuntu call be installed on a Mac but Puppylinux can't (easily)?
    Pity the first live USB stick I made was corrupt just to confuse matters...:)
    Thanks in any case. I'm a big Puppy fan thinking of moving up to Ubuntu for more regular use, so expect lots more stoopid questions.


  • #4
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,074 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Well, I did say the info was a bit old - but now we know, and it shows it can be quicker to try stuff than ask and wait for an answer. ;)

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #5
    Dan_Solo
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 10,087 ✭✭✭✭Dan_Solo


    No, the attempt at help is much appreciated all the same!
    Now, does anyone know where the user data is stored on a Mac HD? This folder names are all double dutch to me.:mad:


  • #6
    Mathiasb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 425 ✭✭Mathiasb


    try this link


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  • #7
    Dan_Solo
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 10,087 ✭✭✭✭Dan_Solo


    LMGTFY doesn't animate on my phone, hehe.
    No sign of that "users" folder anyway, so I'll keep looking.


  • #8
    mathepac
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,991 ✭✭✭mathepac


    Dan_Solo wrote: »
    ... No sign of that "users" folder anyway, so I'll keep looking.
    "Users" if that makes any difference in Kubuntu

    I just tried this and had an authorisation problem viewing the contents of "Users" on two hard-drives having booted Kubuntu from DVD


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