Mounting a MacOS hard disk on a Ubuntu machine?

[Brian McKee]

On 19/09/2007, Gilles Gravier <Gilles at gravier.org> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Anybody try this? I have a MacOS hard disk (in a USB case)... I need to
> get some files off of the disk. Know if Ubuntu will be able to do that?

Assuming you mean OS *X* - default HFS+ then it will work fine.
(There's a UFS option nobody uses I don't know much about)

If the source disk was formatted in Tiger (and Panther?, I forget
which Panther used) it will be *journalled* HFS+ which Ubuntu will
mount read-only, since it can't update the journal correctly.   If you
need read-write then use the Tiger machine's Disk Utility to turn off
journalling on that drive.

Older OSX (Jaguar etc) will mount read-write as they are HFS+ without
the journal.

OS9 and older are HFS and that will mount read-write too (if I
remember correctly - it's been a bit)

If you trip over a partition with just a readme file in it, that's the
HFS portion of an HFS+ partition, just move along.

Incidentally, if you own a Mac formatted iPod that's why it doesn't
work under linux - it won't mount read-write as iTunes formats it HFS+
journalled.    If you use a Windows machine to format it though, it'll
still work fine on the Mac, and work fine under linux too.

HTH
Brian