[Eug-lug] mounting old Mac floppy

Bob Miller kbob at jogger-egg.com
Mon Jan 24 01:55:39 PST 2005


horst wrote:

> I try to extract some files from a Mac floppy that's about 7 years old.

The filesystem type should be hfs.

I'd copy the floppy contents to a disk file and mount the disk file
because old floppies get read errors easily.

	# cp /dev/fd0 /tmp/fd0.img
	# mount -o ro,loop -t hfs /tmp/fd0.img /mnt/floppy
	# ls /mnt/floppy

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