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Re: [LUG] OT: Mounting another macs hard drive

 

Grant Sewell wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 21:12:17 +0000
> "Richard Brown" <rich@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Guys
>>
>> I am trying to mount a mac's hard drive on another mac. One is running
>> 10.3.9 and the other 10.5. Any ideas how I do it please. Both are
>> connected to a wireless router.
> 
> Since you're mentioning the wireless router, I am going to presume that the 
> harddrive you're trying to mount is not attached to the computer you're trying to 
> mount it on.
> 
> Please note that I have no experience with MacOSX, but being a Unix system I would 
> presume the mounting procedure was at least similar to that of GNU/Linux:
> 
> + Ensure the 'mount point' exists (eg /mnt/newdrive).
> + Ensure the device is present (eg /dev/sdXX, /dev/wd0s1c, whatever).
> + Ensure the filesystem you're trying to use is supported (MacOSX uses UFS, 
> doesn't it?).
> + Mount... eg: mount -t ufs /dev/XXXX /mnt/newdrive
> 
> ==Grant.
> 

This might help...

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106461

I would have thought the Macs would be using either HFS+ or UFS filesystems.

Rob


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