[ale] Bootable linux distro that can access mac formatted Unix drives?

Brian Pitts bpitts at learnlink.emory.edu
Thu Apr 26 20:32:20 EDT 2007


Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts wrote:
> Guys, I have a drive that was formatted for ext2 on a Mac.  My linux box
> recognizes the drive and that it has 4 partitions, and even that it was
> created on a mac.  The problem is that fdisk doesn't show a valid
> partition table.
> 
> Does anyone know of a sysrescueCD or similar that can access this OS X
> partitions (or partitions created by OS X)?

You need to use mac-fdisk. I'm not sure what livecd's might include 
this; Debian and Ubuntu only build it for PPC.

-Brian



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