Mount an Apple HFS+ Hard Drive Parition using Knoppix

carlos — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:33:52 +0000

We recently had a client with a crashed hard drive on an Apple MacBook Pro. Data recovery software wasn’t having any luck so we attempted recovery via LINUX. The drive appeared to mount okay via FW400 but did not allow the technician to view the contents, it returned an error stating the drive had an invalid filesystem and could not mount.

A quick command in the terminal cleared things right up:

sudo mkdir /mnt/apple sudo mount -a -t hfsplus /dev/hdf2 /mnt/apple

Of course, you must edit “hdf2″ to match whatever your hard drive was assigned.

mount_point cannot contain the following characters: newline, G_DIR_SEPARATOR (usually /)

carlos — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:48:16 +0000

We recently ran accross a problem while mounting an HFS+ drive on Ubuntu Desktop (Hardy Heron) and fortunately were able to find a quick fix on the net.

While trying to mount the HFS+ drive with RW permissions, we specified the mount point “/media/MacintoshHD” and included “rw” as one of the mount options. Apparently, Hardy doesn’t like this very much and will refuse to mount the drive and returns the error each and every time you try to mount the drive. To fix this, open up the Configuration Editor by entering the following command in Terminal:

gconf-editor

The Configuration Editor opens up and shows you an easy-to-read two-pane window. On the left pane, goto system > storage > volumes and select the device listed. On the right pane you’ll see all the mount options. Delete all the values you see, exit Configuration Editor and disconnect your drive. Plug your drive back in and voila!

Now to get RW permissions on the drive…

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Mount an Apple HFS+ Hard Drive Parition using Knoppix

mount_point cannot contain the following characters: newline, G_DIR_SEPARATOR (usually /)