Ubuntu is a common variant of Linux, complete with a user-friendly interface and full flexibility in customizing it via the Terminal window. Windows and Linux share the ability to open ISO files, which are similar to DMG files.
Did your computer fail to open a DMG file? We explain what DMG files are and recommend software that we know can open or convert your DMG files.What is a DMG file?
DMG files are files that are treated like actual hard disks by the Macintosh OS X operating system. These files can be created with Disk Copy, burned to a CD or even mounted as a normal volume on Macintosh computers. They often contain raw blocks of data that are usually compressed for easier file management.
Some .dmg files may be encrypted in addition to being compressed, for added file security. These files are often used by software installers that download applications from the Internet to a user's computer.
The Oracle export and import utility, used by Oracle databases, also uses the .dmg file extension for database dump files that are stored a binary file format.
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Open DMG File on Linux
Open Dmg File On Linux
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DMG files use Hierarchical File System (HFS) as a disk file system format. In order for your Linux machine to open DMG files it needs to support HFS and HFS+. To enable HFS and HFS+ support on your Linux machine you will need to install HFS tools and kernel modules.
Ubuntu
Below are instructions on how to install HFS and HFS+ and mount HFS+ drive on Ubuntu.
1) Install hfsprogs which enables operation with HFS and HFS+ on Linux via ports of mkfs and fsck.
sudo apt-get install hfsprogs
2) Mount or remount the HFS+ drive
sudo mount -t hfsplus -o force,rw /dev/sdXY /media/mntpoint
or
sudo mount -t hfsplus -o remount,force,rw /mount/point
3) If the drive is partially corrupted or was unmounted with an error run:
sudo fsck.hfsplus -f /dev/sdXY
CentOS
Below are instructions on how to mount HFS or HFS+ in CentOS:
1) Install hfs kernel modules and hfs+ tools:
yum install kmod-hfs
yum install hfsplus-tools
2) Mount or remount the HFS+ drive
sudo mount -t hfsplus -o force,rw /dev/sdXY /media/mntpoint
or
sudo mount -t hfsplus -o remount,force,rw /mount/point
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3) If the drive is partially corrupted or was unmounted with an error run:
sudo fsck.hfsplus -f /dev/sdXY
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With HFS and HFS+ enabled you are ready to mount your DMG file.
Following DMG partitioning schemes were tested to work with instructions below:
- Apple Partition Map
- CD/DVD (partitioned)
- CD/DVD (partitioned) with ISO data
- Hard disk
- Master Boot Record Partition Map
- No partition map
Below is a command to mount an image.dmg file using hfsplus file system:
sudo mount -t hfsplus image.dmg /mnt
Here -t hfsplus tells mount command to mount with HFS+ file system. The /mnt specifies a path to where the image will be mounted.
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To unmount following command is needed:
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sudo mount -t hfsplus image.dmg /mnt