Mount MAC OS X filesystems on Linux Ubuntu

I've come across this many a time. In most cases I used other method of moving data from the external drive(s) to the compositing system, but this time I was facing 196GB of full HD resolution footage which need to use within 2hrs for an online session.

So after a brief fiddle with "fdisk -l" and seeing an unknown filesystem type for this specific device, I decided to shove the firewire800 connection in to my MAC.
Here I saw the typical colour-highlighted folders. Deducing it was a MAC OS X formatted drive, I went on and used the following mount command under my Linux Ubuntu system.

mount -t hfsplus /dev/sdxx /mnt/ieee1394

So to speak a nightmare if you don't know the filesystem type to use when mounting a MAC OS X formatted drive.