[wellylug] Mounting a USB HDD that was partitioned with MacOS X

Gordon Paynter lists at paynter.info
Wed Apr 27 08:35:09 NZST 2005


On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 18:00, Jes Hall wrote:
> Fdisk wont be able to see the partition table and you wont be able to fsck
> the drive, but the hfsplus kernel driver gives you basic read/write
> support.
>
> So, I use
>
> mount /dev/sda /mnt/foo -t hfsplus

Thanks Jes,

That worked perfectly.  I had got as far as compiling hfsplus into the kernel, 
but I didn't know I could pass mount the "-t hfsplus" flag.  It's not in the 
man page on my system.

Gordon




More information about the wellylug mailing list