[opensuse] Mac HD in x86 system?
fdisk -l tells me no valid partition table. I took the HD out of a Mac that won't boot to desktop, thinking the problem may be an overstuffed disk that simply needs some disk cleanup, and mounted it as sole device on the #2 PATA controller as /dev/sdc. Don't Mac disks use a GPT, similar to recent Vista systems? Is this doable somehow in x86 11.0 or Factory? -- "Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to become angry." James 1:19 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 10:48 PM, Felix Miata <mrmazda@ij.net> wrote:
fdisk -l tells me no valid partition table. I took the HD out of a Mac that won't boot to desktop, thinking the problem may be an overstuffed disk that simply needs some disk cleanup, and mounted it as sole device on the #2 PATA controller as /dev/sdc. Don't Mac disks use a GPT, similar to recent Vista systems? Is this doable somehow in x86 11.0 or Factory?
What kind of Mac? PPC or Intel? I've never been able to get an x86 system to read a PPC partition table. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 2008/10/21 23:03 (GMT-0400) Larry Stotler composed:
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 10:48 PM, Felix Miata <mrmazda@ij.net> wrote:
fdisk -l tells me no valid partition table. I took the HD out of a Mac that won't boot to desktop, thinking the problem may be an overstuffed disk that simply needs some disk cleanup, and mounted it as sole device on the #2 PATA controller as /dev/sdc. Don't Mac disks use a GPT, similar to recent Vista systems? Is this doable somehow in x86 11.0 or Factory?
What kind of Mac? PPC or Intel? I've never been able to get an x86 system to read a PPC partition table.
I meant to write G4, but forgot. :-( Since writing, I looked in YaST2 hwinfo, which found 7 partitions on the disk. I tried mount -t auto on them all, and all failed to mount. I tried mount -t hfs on them all. 6 failed, but nothing useful showed up on #7. :-( -- "Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to become angry." James 1:19 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 11:10 PM, Felix Miata <mrmazda@ij.net> wrote:
I meant to write G4, but forgot. :-(
Yeah, they tell me that memory is the 2nd thing you lose as you get older.......I just wish I could remember what the 1st thing was........ :-)
Since writing, I looked in YaST2 hwinfo, which found 7 partitions on the disk. I tried mount -t auto on them all, and all failed to mount. I tried mount -t hfs on them all. 6 failed, but nothing useful showed up on #7. :-(
The first couple partitions on a mac are drivers and stuff. Generally only the last partition has an HFS or HFS+ filesystem on it and useful info. Make sure you load the module: modprobe hfsplus modprobe hfs Good luck. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 2008/10/21 23:44 (GMT-0400) Larry Stotler composed:
The first couple partitions on a mac are drivers and stuff. Generally only the last partition has an HFS or HFS+ filesystem on it and useful info. Make sure you load the module:
modprobe hfsplus modprobe hfs
That helped. That allowed me to see what I needed to see (that it was not even close to full) on the #6 partition, but even with explicit -o rw mounting it refused to let me, even as root, write (copy a file) to it. :-( -- "Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to become angry." James 1:19 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wednesday 22 October 2008 07:54, Felix Miata wrote:
On 2008/10/21 23:44 (GMT-0400) Larry Stotler composed:
The first couple partitions on a mac are drivers and stuff. Generally only the last partition has an HFS or HFS+ filesystem on it and useful info. Make sure you load the module:
modprobe hfsplus modprobe hfs
That helped. That allowed me to see what I needed to see (that it was not even close to full) on the #6 partition, but even with explicit -o rw mounting it refused to let me, even as root, write (copy a file) to it. :-( --
If you have journaling enabled on that volume, it will mount as read-only under the current Linux implementation of HFS Plus. If you disable the journaling (from a Mac, of course), then you'll be able to write to the volume from Linux
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