I've had a lot of luck with TestDisk[1] in the past (mostly for recovering
images from flash memory cards where the user has accidentally done delete all
instead of delete!), but it doesn't claim to support recovering files from HFS+
filesystems. Personally, I'd give it a go anyway and see what it's like.
There's many other file recovery tools out there but I can't vouch for them
personally.
You can install hfsutils and mount hfs+ disks under Linux quite easily. You'll
need something along the lines of the following to mount it:
mount -o loop -t hfs image.dd /mnt/
It might be 'hfsplus' that you need.
Cheers,
Benjie.
[1] http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
On 24 Oct 2011, at 14:57, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a friend who has messed up and re-installed a factory default
> Mac OS X and therefore lost all their photos.
> I have offered to help.
> I will be taking a sector exact copy of the Mac OS X hard disk. (using dd)
> What tools are there available in Linux to read this Mac OS X disk
> image and maybe recover a picture or two?
>
> Essentually, I will be doing a scan of the un-used sectors of the
> disk, as all the allocated sectors will just contain the Mac OS X
> files.
> Fortunately, I only have to recover .JPG files. I am not interested in
> any music or other videos they might have had.
> I am a little concerned that the Mac OS also supports compressiong at
> the filesystem level, so that might cause problems.
>
> Kind Regards
>
> James
>
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