CentOS - Mar 2010 - Mounting a Mac OS Extended (Journaled) Hard Drive

Hi,

I need to migrate about 8Tb of data from a Mac Fibre Channel RAID to by LVM Ext3
Linux Fibre Channel RAID. For speed I planned to connect both RAID's to my
CentOS Server and copy the data directly.

The Mac volume is formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) it seems that CentOS
5.4 supports reading HFS volumes but not HFSPlus volumes. Is there a way of
getting this volume to mount so I can copy of the data? I see Fedora has HFSPlus
support

Thanks

Keith

On 22 Mar 2010, at 09:53, Keith Beeby <k.beeby at albion.co.uk> wrote:
> Is there a way of getting this volume to mount so I can copy of the
> data? I see Fedora has HFSPlus support
I'd be tempted to connect the HFS+ RAID back to the Mac and copy the
data using rsync.  Sure it won't be as quick as direct attached, but
maybe quicker than waiting for a working solution.

Or maybe try a Fedora live CD.

Ben

Keith Beeby wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I need to migrate about 8Tb of data from a Mac Fibre Channel RAID to
> by LVM Ext3 Linux Fibre Channel RAID. For speed I planned to connect
> both RAID's to my CentOS Server and copy the data directly.
> 
> The Mac volume is formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) it seems
> that CentOS 5.4 supports reading HFS volumes but not HFSPlus volumes.
> Is there a way of getting this volume to mount so I can copy of the
> data? I see Fedora has HFSPlus support
The CentOS 5 kernel does have the hfsplus.ko module ...

What happens when you type:

  modprobe hfsplus

James Pearson

From: Keith Beeby <k.beeby at albion.co.uk>
> The Mac volume is 
> formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) it seems that CentOS 5.4 supports 
> reading HFS volumes but not HFSPlus volumes. Is there a way of getting this
> volume to mount so I can copy of the data? I see Fedora has HFSPlus 
> support
# locate hfsplus =>
/lib/modules/2.6.18-164.11.1.el5/kernel/fs/hfsplus/hfsplus.ko
But the mount manpage only talks about hfs and the hfsplus in the kernel sources
seems to be empty...
I guess just try:
  modprobe hfsplus
  mount -t hfsplus ... (maybe -o ro to be safe?)

JD