How do I mount a HFS+ dd image in OSX?
- by Paul McMillan
I had an HFS+ formatted drive that was going bad and wouldn't mount at all on OSX. I created an image using ddrescue on linux, and was able to save most of it.
I can mount the drive and see the data just fine in linux using this:
mount -o loop -t hfsplus dd_image /Volumes/mountpoint
This doesn't work on my OSX system since hfsplus isn't a valid filesystem type. If I try:
mount -t hfs image mountpoint
It complains that it needs a block device. What's the fix here?