Thread: Accessing a MAC drive?

hi folks – please gentle me i’m beginner things unix. repair pc’s living, understand windows (sorry…). anyway, have customer’s dead mini mac, , have taken 2½” sata drive out of , slaved off pc i’ve installed ubuntu 10.02 on.

can mount drive in file browser, can't read of contents of folders (i want copy guy’s pictures somewhere more accessible, throw mini mac away it's knackered). folders appear empty, i’m sure they’re not – disk properties show 50gb used space.

i’m assuming security issue – but, if try , change anything, says can't because i’m not owner.

there simple, beginner-friendly way take ownership of drive, in windoze?

in advance

posted roger465

there simple, beginner-friendly way take ownership of drive, in windoze?

not quite!

there 2 issues getting in way. first - drive formatted journalled version of apple's hfs+ filesystem linux can mount read-only. hence can't change anything. (in fact can mount read-write force option, wouldn't recommend it. - aside - had hfs+ filesystem been non-journalled, have been mounted read-write. but's that's theoretical in situation.)

other issue 1 of unix permissions , ownerships, linux , macos using same system. uid of mac personal files 501, , uid of account using 1000. that's why "you not owner" message.

workaround straightforward, , requires use of root-owned nautilus file-browser. plug drive in , let automounted. close nautilus window opens - won't need it. open terminal and:

code:

gksu nautilus /media

a root nautilus open in system /media folder , see 1 or more folders, 1 of mountpoint mac drive. open 1 seems , see macos filesystem. browse folder personal files , copy them drag , drop in usual way.

1 disadvantage files may end being owned root once copied ubuntu filesystem. i'm not 100% sure - it's been little while since i've had this. if owned root, post , we'll take there.

edit: 1 way round root-owned issue - if occurs - copy files ntfs filesystem linux can mount read-write. plug hfs+ drive in. plug second usb ntfs-formatted drive in (or use internal partition). drag-copy root nautilus showing mac files ordinary nautilus open in ntfs drive/partition. since ntfs doesn't support unix permissions/ownership, lose them when copy files ntfs - can useful in situation this.

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