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RalphORama

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Registered: 2013-09-07

Posts: 8

Installing on MacBook Pro - how do I format with hfsplus?

I'm installing Arch on my MacBook Pro (late 2008, x64), and everything's working well aside from one problem: I can't figure out how to install the hfsprogs package so I can format my EFI partition to an hfsplus filesystem. I've googled around and tried downloading the tarball from the ftp link on the package page, but I don't know what to do after that point. It doesn't appear to be included in any repository, so I can't use pacman -S hfsprogs.

How do I install the hfsprogs package and format my EFI partition (/dev/sda1) to HFS+?

Spider.007

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Registered: 2004-06-20

Posts: 1,175

Re: Installing on MacBook Pro - how do I format with hfsplus?

Your EFI partition should not be hfs+; have a look at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/UE … _Partition

SilverOne

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From: Portugal

Registered: 2013-08-22

Posts: 69

Re: Installing on MacBook Pro - how do I format with hfsplus?

Spider.007 is correct, here is my current setup:

NAME   FSTYPE  LABEL         UUID                                 MOUNTPOINT
sda                                                               
├─sda1 vfat    EFI           70D6-1701                            
├─sda2 hfsplus Macintosh SSD 956c7127-1bde-348b-9fb5-1b79cd05a4ad 
├─sda3 hfsplus Recovery HD   4fa05f80-9ed0-3fc2-82eb-dbd6e4bd4b12 
└─sda4 ext4                  f741fbee-f3b0-4a95-b9b8-f35f4b4c28af /
sr0      

Last edited by SilverOne (2014-05-04 01:12:50)

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