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Arch Linux: DMG Image Mount
Posted on November 2, 2013
How to mount Apple’s macOS disk image (DMG) under Arch Linux…
Kernel Support Check
The condition is to have built in or compiled kernel drivers for HFS
/XFS
. In can be checked in Arch Linux as follows:
$ zcat /proc/config.gz | grep XFS
CONFIG_XFS_FS=m
CONFIG_XFS_QUOTA=y
CONFIG_XFS_POSIX_ACL=y
CONFIG_XFS_RT=y
# CONFIG_XFS_WARN is not set
# CONFIG_XFS_DEBUG is not set
# CONFIG_VXFS_FS is not set
In Gentoo (or in any other linux distro where the kernel was manually built), it can be checked as follows:
$ grep XFS /usr/src/linux/.config
CONFIG_XFS_FS=y
Mounting the DMG Image
Mounting the DMGFILE.dmg
as root
into MOUNTPOINT
can be performed as follows:
$ mount -t hfsplus -o loop DMGFILE.dmg /media/MOUNTPOINT