Another vote for TestDisk, or to be more specific it's companion
program PhotoRec[1]. It's a very handy tool for those "oh ****"
moments.

It claims support for Mac OS X and HFS+, so I guess there's no need
for special mount commands.

[1] http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec

Regards,
Kerwin


On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 1:00 PM,  <hampshire-requ...@mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
>
> Message: 10
> Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 09:41:27 +0100
> From: Benjie Gillam <ben...@jemjie.com>
> Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Max OS HD image
> To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List <hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk>
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> TestDisk does exactly that - it scans the whole disk looking for pieces of 
> data that look like they were JPG images (or whatever you're searching for - 
> it has a bunch of prebuilt filters) - which is why I recommended it. However 
> different filesystems lay out files in different places - e.g. at multiples 
> of 512bytes or other such things, but TestDisk might not have the rules for 
> HFS+. I suspect it will do its best nonetheless, which is why I suggested it.
>
> I've used TestDisk against both raw devices and dd images of devices before - 
> it should do what you want without having to mount the image. The mount 
> command was just in case you needed it, I'm sorry it confused my post.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Benjie.
>

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