Comments on: Recover Damaged Mac HFS+ disk with Linux

By: Mike Richards

Mike Richards — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 12:31:38 +0000

Hi,

I’m not Mac expert but it’s probably ok to run a live version of Linux from your machine to run the fix.
Regards,

Mike

By: Brandyne Paz

Brandyne Paz — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 08:45:37 +0000

Hello, Do i need to connect the HD from my mac to a machine running linux, or will this work by running Linux from usb on my mac. I have to run linux from usb on mac because it does not detect a HD however in linux it shows the mac hd there.

By: Mike Richards

Mike Richards — Fri, 26 Nov 2021 11:02:48 +0000

In reply to Sunil. Pleased to hear you found it useful.

By: Sunil

Sunil — Fri, 26 Nov 2021 04:08:28 +0000

Thanks for this! I was previously using “hfsplus” in Linux, but “hfsprogs” seemed to do the trick for reading the drive. My brother-in-law said the Apple Store told him his HD was dead, but I was able to fix his drive using your steps. Much appreciated!

By: john

john — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 08:23:01 +0000

useful thanks!

By: Mike Richards

Mike Richards — Fri, 10 May 2019 10:05:38 +0000

In reply to Michael. Sorry to have left this so long. Unfortunately, I can't help you as I don't have access to a Mac. I only posted this to record a method that worked for me.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 25 Apr 2019 14:36:25 +0000

thanks for the post, but after: sudo fsck.hfsplus -f /dev/sdb2

i have this error

mibono@linux:~$ sudo fsck.hfsplus -f /dev/sdb2
** /dev/sdb2
** Checking HFS Plus volume.
Invalid B-tree node size
(4, 0)
** Volume check failed.

By: Mike Richards

Mike Richards — Sat, 09 Feb 2019 16:10:46 +0000

In reply to Zaphod Beeblebrox.

Hi – Glad you found it helpful 😀 Mike – G4WNC

By: Zaphod Beeblebrox

Zaphod Beeblebrox — Sat, 09 Feb 2019 16:03:23 +0000

Nice, concise, noob-friendly, yet not dumbed down, and nothing exotic, using well establisbed tools that will be on repo.