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

Robert Story rstory-l at 2006.revelstone.com
Fri Apr 27 12:54:24 EDT 2007


On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 20:32:20 -0400 Brian wrote:
BP> Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts wrote:
BP> > Guys, I have a drive that was formatted for ext2 on a Mac.  My linux box
BP> > recognizes the drive and that it has 4 partitions, and even that it was
BP> > created on a mac.  The problem is that fdisk doesn't show a valid
BP> > partition table.
BP> > 
BP> > Does anyone know of a sysrescueCD or similar that can access this OS X
BP> > partitions (or partitions created by OS X)?
BP> 
BP> You need to use mac-fdisk. I'm not sure what livecd's might include 
BP> this; Debian and Ubuntu only build it for PPC.

or pdisk. I grab the src rpms from the yellowdog mirros and rebuild it when I
need it..



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