Long shot - Can I mount Mac HFS+ partitions under Linux?

[MikeHunt79]

I've got an EXT3 partition I need to backup.

I've tried to read an EXT3 partition under OSX but no dice.

I can install Ubuntu on a USB stick, and boot off that, but if there a was of mounting an HFS+ partition, and more importantly, being able to write to the HFS+ partition safely?

 

[MikeHunt79]

I think I'll give http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsx/ a go, tho I've heard it does not work on 10.6 but I think I've got OSX 10.5 which I can run from my USB key...

Long story short, I have a laptop which no longer works, it got dropped and has a cracked PCB, but I need to recover the data from the HD, and it was running Ubuntu with the HD formatted as EXT3.

I've taken the HD out, and put it into an external enclosure, and my macbook sees the drive but cannot read the partition. I guess another option would be to boot ubuntu on my mac, then just write DVD's with the data from the EXT3 partition. I'm going to try this first...

I've recovered stuff from NTFS partitions before under OSX with no trouble... but EXT3 seems harder which is strange.

Anyway, I think I'll try mounting EXT3 under OSX, as it seems I'm unable to write to a HFS+ partition, and I'm not suprised really as this is Apples filesystem.

I was going to try a Windows box but that's not working at the moment...