[nycbug-talk] HFS+ in FreeBSD

Charles Sprickman spork at bway.net
Fri Jan 26 04:27:55 EST 2007


On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Charles Sprickman wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Long story, but I've recently had both my iBook and my G5 tower die.
>
> No biggie for the most part since the iBook was not expected to live much
> longer so I got a deal ($1300) on a CoreDuo MacBook Pro.
>
> However I'm now looking at an SATA disk with an Apple partition table and
> an HFS+ FS on it.  I have no functioning Apple gear with an SATA port.  I
> have one 1U server (temporarily) running FreeBSD 6.2 with SATA ports.
>
> I want to pull a few files (like my accounting system stuff with the last
> few weeks of billing) off the drive...
>
> Any quickie ideas?

Just so you can all breathe a sigh of relief, the "dd" trick worked well. 
:)

Charles

> Thanks,
>
> Charles
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