dmgextractor fails on my dmg with extended partitions (plist attached) about dmgextractor

[unsound]

I think that this issue is fixed in HEAD. The exact commit should be d1ed9af. However please confirm.

I haven't been watching the issues here on github so sorry about the lack of response.

[Blaisorblade]

Thanks for your answer, and for writing this program in the first place!

TL; DR. I can't test it now and I fear I won't come around to testing this again, but from looking at the code I think the issue is fixed.

From looking at the commit and comparing with my quick hack (f802459), I guess the issue is indeed fixed (the only change is that you have more error handling). In the end I did recover the data I wanted.

EDIT: split post.

[Blaisorblade]

In fact, to save my data without having so much extra space around (I had a 250G image), I ended up extracting the partition table and writing a script to "loop-mount" the different partitions on Linux (with dmsetup). I don't quite think you should include that in the app (though it might make some sense for Linux users); I just wanted to reuse your parsing code and process the results a bit.

Hacky code here. I really really really don't like the organization of the code, but it was useful for me. A cleaner approach would have been to split the backend into a reusable library, but that'd be quite some work.

[unsound]

Ok, thanks. Closing this issue since it seems to be fixed.

As you say, the loop-mounting script modifications is not really in the scope of dmgextractor so there's no reason to include it, but maybe somebody else with a similar problem will find this useful.

A better solution for this kind of case would be to expose the device (or individual partitions) over FUSE.

[unsound]

I actually went ahead to create a FUSE driver which does just this. It's in an early stage, but should be functional (there will probably be bugs in this first version).

See the 'fuse' branch if you are interested.

[Blaisorblade]

Wow, that's very cool to hear, thanks a lot! I'm curious to take a look in the future.