[ale] SOLVED (probably) (NOT!) Re: Rescuing an OS X HD from Linux - partition table hosed

JK jknapka at kneuro.net
Fri Jan 15 00:19:03 EST 2010


On 1/14/2010 6:10 PM, JK wrote:
> Yes, I am a sinner with the self-followups; sorry.
>
> Turns out GNU parted has a much better understanding of OSX disks.
> I have located the HFS filesystem and am happily fsck.hfsplus'ing
> it now.


"Happily" may have been an overstatement.  I am seeing a great
many "{DRDY ERR}" status messages during the fsck process.
It does seem to making progress, but  s l o w l y.

(Later) fsck.hfsplus says: "Unable to repair filesystem after
3 attempts."  However, I *was* able to mount the partition and
see some files.  Attempts to copy led to the same behavior as
the fsck: {DRDY ERR} messages all over the place.

Time to seek professional help?  Or is there something else I
should try first?  (Other than telling the ex to make regular
backups in the future, I mean.)

Thanks,

-- JK


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