[nmglug] drive problems

[BrianO'Keefe]

thanks Ed. I will check out the link and I may need to send the drive in
for "extraction"!
I'll post the results.

Ed Brown wrote:
> BrianO'Keefe wrote:
>
>> Briefly it's 3 partitions created with OS X disk utility. All 3 mount in
>> Linux but 1, the 1 I need, does not mount in OS X.
> ...
>> How can I mount this partition as rw so I can get rid of some excess
>> crap and get to the files I need?
>
> 'Too full' drives sound like a red herring, deleting files in order to
> get to files just doesn't make sense.  I'm guessing you're talking
> about HFS+ filesystems, which from what I gather, is only marginally
> or recently supported under linux.  In fact, with marginal support,
> trying to mount read/write under linux could make matters worse.  If
> you just want to get the data off, mounting read-only should be
> adequate.  There is some good info, including about trying to repair
> HFS+ filesystems from linux, here:
> <http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_hfsplus>
>
> -Ed
>
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