>I'm wondering if anyone knows of a way to mount unusual partitions under
>linux (like, say, maybe old Mac (not even sure what filesystem they use)
>or even Apple II/IIgs disks (which were ProDos??)). I have some data
>(probably in ascii format or at least in something relatively close) on
>these floppies that I'd love to move to a usable machine. I don't even
>really have access to these machines natively to get access to the data.
>I scrounged a little around on the mount manpage as well as for info on
>fstab, but I couldn't find these filesystems. Incidentally, sometimes I
>have trouble recognizing which filesystem listed in mount goes with what
>machine (in other words I don't know the correlation between filesystem
>and more recognized OS for the more esoteric cases). Is this info listed
>somewhere else?
I seem to remember that those old Mac disks are not hardware compatible
with PC drives due to the recording method (varying sectors per track
depending on radius, IIRC). So you don't even get to the starting block
due to that hardware incompatibility. But why not do a web search?
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