It looks as if it can be done under Ubuntu. Is it possible from a live 15.4 XFCE USB booted on a 2015 MacBook Pro? What do I need to install? I only need read permission.
@ionmich It’s there;
zypper in libfsapfs
/usr/bin/fsapfsinfo
/usr/bin/fsapfsmount
Many thanks. I will try them out.
After booting XFCE Live, I can execute fsapfsinfo. But I’m not getting any output. Can you give me an example of the options needed to view the whole Apple hard drive? I am trying to have access to a specific directory to back it up under XFCE so I can save it to an ext4 drive.
Thanks in advance.
@ionmich did you mount the partition?
When I used fdisk to identify the hd it didn’t show up. But since you asked I believe I should have used gdisk. Old habits of old people. In the meantime I formatted an exfat drive and I am copying under macOS. Slowly.
Moving on, but not quite there.
localhost:/home/linux # gdisk /dev/sda
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 1.0.8
Partition table scan:
MBR: protective
BSD: not present
APM: not present
GPT: present
Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT.
Command (? for help): p
Disk /dev/sda: 977105060 sectors, 465.9 GiB
Model: APPLE SSD SM0512
Sector size (logical/physical): 512/4096 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): 46877AB2-D7A7-467E-936F-E92D64A2F4D6
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
Main partition table begins at sector 2 and ends at sector 33
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 977105026
Partitions will be aligned on 8-sector boundaries
Total free space is 9 sectors (4.5 KiB)
Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name
1 40 409639 200.0 MiB EF00 EFI System Partition
2 409640 977105023 465.7 GiB AF0A Customer
Command (? for help):
localhost:/home/linux # /usr/bin/fsapfsmount -p userspassword /dev/sda2 /mnt
fsapfsmount 20210513
Unable to open source container
libcaes_crypt_xts: unable to initialize cipher with error: error:060CF0B7:digital envelope routines:aesni_xts_init_key:xts duplicated keys.
libfsapfs_encryption_context_crypt: unable to decrypt data.
libfsapfs_container_key_bag_read_file_io_handle: unable to decrypt data.
libfsapfs_internal_container_open_read: unable to read container key bag at offset: 188576931840 (0x2be80fa000).
libfsapfs_container_open_file_io_handle: unable to read from file IO handle.
mount_handle_open: unable to open container.
When I add the -o option the decryption error disappears.
# /usr/bin/fsapfsmount -p xxxxx42 -o 20210513 /dev/sda2 /mnt
fsapfsmount 20210513
Unable to open source container
libfsapfs_container_superblock_read_data: invalid object type: 0xb3b51b72.
libfsapfs_container_superblock_read_file_io_handle: unable to read container superblock data.
libfsapfs_internal_container_open_read: unable to read container superblock at offset: 0 (0x00000000).
libfsapfs_container_open_file_io_handle: unable to read from file IO handle.
mount_handle_open: unable to open container.
and if I invoke
# /usr/bin/fsapfsmount -p xxxxx42 -o 0x00000000 /dev/sda2 /mnt
fsapfsmount 20210513
Unable to set container offset.
mount_handle_system_string_copy_from_64_bit_in_decimal: unsupported character value: x at index: 1.
mount_handle_set_offset: unable to copy string to 64-bit decimal.
I get even fewer errors, but using a decimal value of 0 returns the previous errors.