[NCLUG] dead drive

[mike cullerton]

wow, thanks!

On Saturday, July 13, 2002, at 01:48 PM, Chris Riddoch wrote:

> mike cullerton <michaelc at cullerton.com> writes:
>
>> hey folks,
>>
>>   got a drive that won't mount. it's hfs+ on a macos x box. fsck says
>>   "Invalid node structure" and aborts. i don't even know what that
>>   means.
>
> Well, one of my friends coincidentally just had to pull a bunch of
> stuff off a Mac last week. He ended up looking around for HFS+
> filesystem support for linux, and couldn't find any. He ended up using
> 'dd' and schlourping the entire drive into one massive file in the
> hope that someone will eventually write support for that filesystem.
>
> I think I've found some options, though.
>
>>   any ideas to try? do i have any chance of getting data off the drive?
>
> Looks like there's nothing in the kernel, but there *is* a program
> called hfsplus, and a sourceforge project for making an hfsplus
> driver:
>
> http://packages.debian.org/testing/otherosfs/hfsplus.html
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-hfsplus/
>
> Someone commented last month on the sourceforge site:
>
>> New patch available against the 2.4.18 kernel. Haven't had any
>> stability problems, and runs pretty well on small drives, and
>> reliable but somewhat slow on very large drives. Note that any hard
>> links created in OSX will show up without their data, as they are
>> handled in a somewhat strange fashion...
>
> Release notes:
>
>> Release Name: hfsplus 0.2
>>
>> Notes: Reliable reading of metadata and file forks, if somewhat slow
>> on a volume with many files. No support for anything other than
>> read-only, and no resource fork
>
> Download it here:
>
> http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/linux-hfsplus/hfsplus-
> patch-20020606?download
>
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