My mac recently gave up and I'm trying to salvage whatever data I can from the hard drive. I was able to boot using the OSX Installation CD and fire up Disk Utility that basically told me that the drive could not be repaired and I need to format it. My question - how can I manually mount it (from Terminal) and try to recover some of my data? I figured that if Disk Utility can see it, perhaps I could too. Thanks.
2 Answers
To mount disks:
diskutil list
see your drive and note id#, then:
diskutil mountDisk /dev/diskn
where n is the # you id'ed in diskutil list
You can try something like this:
mount /dev/disk1s10
And replace disk1s10 with the identifier of your drive.
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There are plenty of disk* entries in
/dev
. How can I know which one is my actual drive? thanks again.– sa125Nov 7, 2011 at 18:20 -
1There are a few ways that I can think of. First get a list of all mounted drives before mounting the old drive. After you mount the old drive, view the list again - you can id it by process of elimination. There were a few other methods found in this SU post: superuser.com/questions/114515/…
drutil
anddf
looked like the most effective methods– JW8Nov 7, 2011 at 18:53 -
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