Query on mounting Mac (OS X) partition with a live CD

raghukalyan · 03-31-2009, 12:28 PM

Query on mounting Mac (OS X) partition with a live CD:

I have custom made Fedora Live CD.

When our Mac Book Pro booted with this live CD, we observed following details:
su
fdisk -l (or) parted (print command) gives Mac partition as type hfsplus and device: /dev/sda1
But actual Mac partition was /dev/sda2. We have discovered this accidentally.

Is there any better way to find exact details of Mac partition?

irishbitte · 04-01-2009, 09:07 PM

take a look at this link: http://jclark.org/weblog/2005/05/24/ubuntumount/
granted, that person is using an ubuntu live cd, but the program parted AKA gparted will allow you to do what you seem to want. be careful though! don't say i didn't warn you! This program can erase everything, or make your hard disk unbootable and so on. i recommend using it only to scan the hard drive, and then you can mount things separately.

raghukalyan · 04-02-2009, 02:23 AM

Irish,

Thank you. Let me try it out.

Sure I will remember you warning.

irishbitte · 04-02-2009, 02:44 PM

Hope that goes well for you.