TOPIC: Mounting HFS+ Partitions

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Introduction
With just a few quick command-line arguments, you can quickly mount a Mac OS X (HFS+) partition from Yellow Dog Linux.

Here we go ...

1. Login to a shell or terminal as root.
   
   
2. mkdir /mnt/macosx [RETURN]
   
   
3. (YDL 3.0.1) modprobe hfsplus [RETURN]
   
   
4. (YDL 3.0, you must install the YDL 3.0.1 kernel ... and if "uname -r" returns "2.4.22" you're good to go)
   
   
5. parted /dev/hdx [RETURN] (where "x" is the drive on which your Mac OS X installation resides).
   
   
6. From within parted, press "p" and RETURN to print the drive partition table. Take note of the partition where Mac OS X resides (noted below as "y", ie: /dev/hda7).
   
   
7. mount /dev/hdxy /mnt/macosx -thfsplus [RETURN]
   
   
8. cd /mnt/macosx [RETURN]
   
   
9. ll [RETURN]

You can now easily navigate and manipulate files on your Mac OS X partition(s). BE CAREFUL! This is the real Mac OS X volume. Any changes you make will affect OS X.

This HOWTO was created by Kai Staats, Terra Soft Solutions