$ sudo fdisk -lu
El 27/10/19 a les 13:46, [email protected] ha escrit: > I've got an old USB hard drive that was originally formatted as a backup > drive for a MacBook. At some point, somebody carved off some space and > made a second partition, accessible by default with GNU/Linux. The last > time the owner used it, they tried to update the Time Machine backup > located on it, but their MacBook file system was badly corrupted, the > update didn't work, and in the end they replaced their MacBook drive > with a larger SSD. > > I'm now trying to check the contents of both partitions from within > Trisquel, but the system is having a lot of trouble mounting even the > partition that's normally accessible. GParted is struggling to scan > devices with the drive inserted. When I tried to shut down Trisquel with > the drive still plugged in, it spat out a bunch of unhappy looking error > messages, so I unplugged the drive, and it shut down fine. > > I did a web search looking for advice and found a bunch of articles > about accessing Mac formatted drives from GNU/Linux: > https://www.macworld.com/article/3003385/how-to-access-a-mac-drive-from-a-windows-or-linux-system.html > > > https://askubuntu.com/questions/332315/how-to-read-and-write-hfs-journaled-external-hdd-in-ubuntu-without-access-to-os > > > https://askubuntu.com/questions/100167/how-to-mount-hfs-drive-and-ignore-permissions > > > But I suspect the drive itself is bricked. Is there any way to probe it > and see what state it's in using command line tools?
