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hfsutils


  1. harald
    Member

    hello,

    i've just used finnix for rescue of important files on a powerbook with corrupt OSX installation. there was no chance to boot OSX and get into network anymore because of a corrupt harddrive - so i used finnix to do so and copy files using scp to another computer.

    the only thing i wonder is, why the hfsutils aren't available on finnix by default. you can mount hfs partitions but for hfs+ you need these utils. you can easily install them by using apt-get after booting finnix. but it would be nice if they could be included in a future version of finnix.

    anyway - finnix helped me a lot. it's a great distribution - keep up the good work.

    regards
    harald
    Posted Fri, 18 Aug 2006 20:27:47 -0700

  2. rfinnie
    Administrator

    According to what I see, hfsutils is alread on the CD. Can you confirm this?

    root@tty:~# dpkg -l hfsutils
    Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
    | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
    |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
    ||/ Name                                   Version                                Description
    +++-======================================-======================================-============================================================================================
    ii  hfsutils                               3.2.6-10                               Tools for reading and writing Macintosh volumes



    Also, even if it weren't, you can mount HFS+ without special utils. Just do "mount -t hfsplus ..."
    Posted Thu, 24 Aug 2006 17:43:17 -0700