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(@aandroidtest)
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Hi All,

I have the acquired raw images for a Mac system (e.g. Mac.001,Mac.002….etc)

Now how do I mount these images to view the file contents in Linux?

Usually for Windows system images, I will use affuse, losetup and kpartx to mount and view the partitions.

But in this case, I am getting, "mount wrong fs type, bad options, bad superblock"

Using dmesg to view error messages, I got the following messages

"hfsplus invalid secondary volume header"
"hfsplus unable to find HFS+ superblock"

However using FTK I could mount the images and view on Windows without any issues.

Is there any other way to mount the Mac images on a Linux system to view the file system/contents?

Thanks In Advance

 
Posted : 23/02/2016 8:40 am
Igor_Michailov
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SmartMount

http//www.asrdata.com/forensic-software/smartmount/

Smart Mount provides automatic detection of the following filesystem types, which helps automate the mounting process.

NTFS
FAT12, FAT16, FAT32
HFS and HFS+ (including HFSJ and HFSX)
Ext2 and Ext3
ISO9660 (CD-ROM)
UDF (DVD)
…and more coming soon!

 
Posted : 23/02/2016 9:36 am
(@aandroidtest)
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Looking for a free option as it is for R&D purposes |

 
Posted : 23/02/2016 10:38 am
(@bithead)
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From the Ubuntu documentation
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/hfsplus

and Tuxtrix
http//tuxtrix.com/2014/03/accessing-hfs-partition-from-linux-in.html

 
Posted : 25/02/2016 6:09 am
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