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Can Linux mount a normal Time Machine sparse bundle disk image directory?

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Mar 15, 202636590 views
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I am looking to see if Linux can mount and read the files natively stored on a Time Capsule over a network share. Like this question, I am looking for something that replicates at least read-only function of hdiutil to attach and then mount a sparse bundle disk images. The SMB mount is easy since t…

Error Output

host:iMac.sparsebundle mike$ ls -la
total 24
drwxrwxrwx@     7 mike  staff      264 Jul  5 10:01 .
drwx------      6 mike  staff      264 Mar 26 13:1…

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You may use a combination of these two: FUSE filesystem for reading Mac OS sparse-bundle disk images https://github.com/torarnv/sparsebundlefs Apple's Time Machine fuse read only file system https://github.com/abique/tmfs The first takes care of the…

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