Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 00:08:56 +0000 From: Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: What sort of file system is this and how to mount it? Message-ID: <4B5B8F98.3000500@onetel.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1001230820080.14656@wonkity.com> References: <4B5AF1AC.8090409@onetel.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1001230820080.14656@wonkity.com>
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Warren Block wrote: > On Sat, 23 Jan 2010, Chris Whitehouse wrote: > > ... >> That makes me think ad4p2 is HFS or HFS+ so I installed hfsexplorer >> (http://hem.bredband.net/catacombae/hfsx.html) and it tells me ad4p2 >> is an invalid HFS type. >> >> So try a few other things >> eco# mount /dev/ad4p2 /mnt >> mount: /dev/ad4p2 : Invalid argument >> eco# mount_msdosfs /dev/ad4p2 /mnt >> mount_msdosfs: /dev/ad4p2: Invalid argument >> eco# mount -t ext2fs /dev/ad4p2 /mnt >> mount: /dev/ad4p2 : Invalid argument >> >> Any ideas? > > file -s /dev/ad4p2 may be able to identify it. > > -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA > Thanks for the tip, it is indeed HFS eco# file -s /dev/ad6p2 /dev/ad6p2: Macintosh HFS Extended version 4 data last mounted by: 'HFSJ', created: Wed Jun 4 06:44:51 2008, last modified: Tue Mar 31 17:31:18 2009, last checked: Wed Jun 4 14:44:51 2008, block size: 4096, number of blocks: 29221228, free blocks: 2704022 (I since plugged in another disk and moved this one to another slot which made this one ad6) I tried hfsexplorer in Windows and could see the data. hfsexplorer on FreeBSD says (handtyped) Invalid HFS type Program supports: HFS_PLUS HFSX HFS_WRAPPED_HFS_PLUS HFS Detected type is (UNKNOWN) and there is a stream of console messages ending with CEncryptedEncoding structure not found. Proceeding... Trying to detect UDIF structure... UDIF structure not found. Proceeding... Does mean hfsexplorer just doesn't work on FreeBSD? Chris
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