Recovery from a HFS+ partition to an NTFS partition
- Install XP on the first partition of the new drive. Choose NTFS.
- On finding that your Mac can't handle the Firewire drive anymore, fall back on…
- … your shiny new Debian install, which you have installed on the second partition of the new drive.
- Install Captive from source. Mount the NTFS drive:
.sudo mkdir /mnt/windows-c; sudo mount -t captive-ntfs -o uid=1000 -o gid=500 -o fmask=666 -o dmask=777 -v -o rw /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows-c
- Now, plug in your Firewire drive and be amazed that it appears in the device listing. The Mac partition won't mount, though.
- Oh yes it will! Check this out:
sudo apt-get install hfsplus; sudo mkdir /mnt/recovery; sudo mount -t hfsplus /dev/sda5 /mnt/recovery
- Try to figure out a way to copy that preserves permissions. rsync gets errors when trying to set them… now I'm trying
cp -pR /mnt/recovery/Games /mnt/windows-c
- I'm trying out Instiki, a sweet little Ruby Wiki. It runs in the background, exports to PDF, and is pretty snazzy.
- Massive congratulations to Lisa; she's at a spectroscopy conference in Belfast, and just won 2nd Prize in the poster competition! Get you, girl!
Posted at 2004-09-09 10:46:10 by Richard • Link to Recovery from a HF…
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