Try a freebsd to mount it. Linux hfs+ has always been flakey
James Courtier-Dutton <james.dutton@???> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I was intending to do some file recovery on a friends Mac OS X laptop.
>Plan was as follows:
>1) take a dd image of the laptop hard disk. (worked fine, remove HD
>from laptop, place in usb hd interface and do dd on it.)
>2) run photorec to recover some of the photos. (worked fine). Did
>exiv2 on that to rename the photos based on the exif info.
>find . -iname "*jpg" -exec exiv2 -t -F '{}' \;
>3) mount the hfsplus partition and recover what I could from that.
>It is this last bit that failed to work.
>
>I would have expected something like this to work:
>mount -t hfsplus -o ro,loop,offset=209735680 macbook1.img /n1/macbook/fs
>but it failed to mount.
>Please see
>https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-meta/+bug/889928
>for details of why it did not work.
>Essentially there is a bug in the hfsplus kernel code that fails to
>recognize the hfsplus partition in particular circumstances.
>
>I have done this procedure (step 3) without any problems when
>recovering windows and linux boxes.
>I had assumed it would be just as easy on Mac OS X.
>So, I thought I would mention it, in case anyone else is having
>similar problems.
>I sure did waste several hours of my weekend.
>
>Kind Regards
>
>James
>
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