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How can I mount a Mac HD on Linux? Need commands.?
First of all, I know very little about Macs... I am trying to recover files off of a MacBook hard drive that wont boot. I have it hooked up to another computer that is running Ubuntu. The drive isn't showing up in Ubuntu, so I am pretty sure it isn't mounted.
Can someone provide some details on the commands needed to mount this drive so I can have read/write access to it?
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- 10 years agoFavorite Answer
Open a terminal, type "sudo -s"(so you are sudo the whole time, to get out of this later, just type "exit"), enter your password, and follow these steps:
1. Figure out which file in /dev is the drive. One way to do this is cd to /dev and then ls with the drive unplugged, and then plug it in and do it again, and whatever changes is the drive. btw, scsi drives are supposed to be hotswappable.
3. Make a directory to mount it to, like mac_drive with "mkdir /media/mac_drive"
2. type "mount -t hfs -rw /dev/'drive' /media/mac_drive". 'drive' will probably be something like sdb or if ide, then hdb.
Source(s): I run ubuntu on my computers and have had to mount various things.