Re: Mounting OS-X "Unix" filesystems on Linux

[Horst von Brand]

John Kodis <[e-mail]> said:
> I'm trying to mount an OS-X Unix filesystem on Linux.  I haven't had
> any luck at this, and wondered whether this is a known problem, or if
> I'm doing something wrong.
> 
> I formatted a zip disk on a Mac OS-X, selecting the "Unix" filesystem
> type and no partitions.  I then inserted this disk in the /dev/hdd,
> the zip drive on my PC.  I tried mounting hdd and hdd1 through hdd4
> using types of auto, ufs, udf, sysv, and one or two others, all to no
> avail.

Try fdisk(8) on it, it might tell you of any strange partitioning. Or the
Mac might have written to the device (not a partition). Get hold of the
first Kb or so of each partition, file(1) might be able to find out what it
is.

Good luck!
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Horst von Brand			     http://counter.li.org # 22616