I have a friend's Mac OS X disk that comes with an HFS+ partition. I am supposed to recover the personal data from this disk (it's not yet clear if the FS is corrupted or the disk dying), but for the life of me I cannot understand what is the traditional file-tree structure on a Mac OS X disk.
Where is the user content located? On Windows it's in My Documents, on Linux it's in /home/user, but where is it on Mac OS X?
EDIT1: If I mount the drive on Linux I get the following:
liv@liv-HP-Compaq-dc7900:/media/Macintosh HD$ cat /etc/mtab | grep -i hfsplus
/dev/sdc2 /media/Macintosh\040HD hfsplus ro,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks 0 0
And doing an ls on the mount point doesn't contain any mention of Users in it:
liv@liv-HP-Compaq-dc7900:/media/Macintosh HD$ ls -lh
ls: cannot access home: Input/output error
ls: cannot access libpeerconnection.log: Input/output error
ls: cannot access net: Input/output error
ls: reading directory .: Input/output error
total 20M
drwxrwxr-x 1 root 80 53 Oct 18 22:07 Applications
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 39 Sep 26 00:51 bin
drwxrwxr-t 1 root 80 2 Jul 9 2009 cores
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2 Jul 9 2009 dev
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 11 Sep 24 2009 etc -> private/etc
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root 80 60 Mar 20 2010 Guides de l’utilisateur et informations -> /Library/Documentation/User Guides and Information.localized
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? home
-????????? ? ? ? ? ? libpeerconnection.log
drwxrwxr-t 1 root 80 58 Mar 27 2013 Library
drwxrwxrwt 1 root root 4 Sep 18 2012 lost+found
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20M Jun 8 2011 mach_kernel
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? net
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2 Jul 9 2009 Network
drwxr-xr-x 1 501 80 3 Oct 26 2010 opt
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6 Sep 24 2009 private
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 67 Sep 26 00:52 sbin
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4 Jul 3 2011 System
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 11 Sep 24 2009 tmp -> private/tmp
But I do see a home, though. Does this imply some weird Mac OS X configuration? Or is it likely that Users was deleted?
/Usersin the file structure. There is a/homedir, though. – landroni Jan 09 '14 at 22:53