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I've backed up some files from a old Powerbook G4 (AluBook), and I used the Mac Partion manager or whatever to first initialize the disk.

It worked, originally, as one large volume, and I copied several files to it. The disk probably has files from 1-2 pre-existing Windows installation on it.

first 2 512b blocks

Here is what the first 2 blocks look like, dumped out into Bash

ER���@x$����"��PM?AppleApple_partition_

Using Debian GNU/Linux I see a strange assortment of partitions, not just the one large folder like in an old Mac. (Currently it doesn't read in any Macs either, although it did at least once before).

I would love to mount this drive into Debian, and copy the files!

I have installed all packages related to HFS+, as these probably are needed.

parted

gives me this data...

I am expecting one large drive, 160GB, with about 31GB of data on it (not what is shown below):

(parted) unit b                                                           
(parted) p                                                                
Model: ST916082 3AS (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 160041885696B
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: mac

Number  Start          End            Size          File system  Name                      Flags
 1      512B           32767B         32256B                     Apple
 2      32768B         61439B         28672B                     Macintosh
 3      61440B         90111B         28672B                     Macintosh
 4      90112B         118783B        28672B                     Macintosh
 5      118784B        147455B        28672B                     Macintosh
 6      147456B        409599B        262144B                    Macintosh
 7      409600B        671743B        262144B                    Macintosh
 8      671744B        933887B        262144B                    Patch Partition
10      135151616B     91240419327B   91105267712B  hfs+         Apple_HFS_Untitled_1
11      91240419328B   91777290239B   536870912B    hfs+         Apple_HFS_Untitled_2
13      91911507968B   113693339647B  21781831680B  hfs+         Apple_HFS_Untitled_3
14      113693339648B  113727942655B  34603008B     hfs+         Apple_HFS_Untitled_4
16      113862160384B  160041877503B  46179717120B  hfs+         Apple_HFS_Untitled_5
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Maybe it could work with darling-dmg, it can read rather modern Apple_partition_map :

sudo apt-get install libfuse-dev cmake
git clone https://github.com/darlinghq/darling-dmg
mkdir darling-dmg-build && cd darling-dmg-build
cmake ../darling-dmg
make -j$(nproc)
./darling-dmg disk_afs.bin mount_dir/

If it's not working, the source code is fairly readable, maybe you can patch it for your needs.

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