[SOLVED] No partitions on HFS+ Volume

sonnenschein · 2015-01-12 07:52:53

Hi,
I have an external HDD with HFS+ and 4 partitions: ssd1-4. No problems on a mac with it.
With Arch I just can access sdd and not any partition.

fdisk and lsblk just see sdd. gparted recognize sdd1-4.

hfsprogs is installed.

# fsck.hfsplus -f /dev/sdd4

/dev/sdd4: No such file or directory
Can't stat /dev/sdd4
Can't stat /dev/sdd4: No such file or directory

# fsck.hfsplus -f /dev/sdd

** /dev/sdd
** Checking HFS Plus volume.
   Invalid B-tree node size
(3, 0)
** Volume check failed.

Any suggestions how I can access the HDD or repair it without losing the data (its a 2TB and I don't have another big HDD to back up)?!

Last edited by sonnenschein (2015-01-12 12:33:22)

clfarron4 · 2015-01-12 08:05:47

I assume you've seen this on the ArchWiki:

ArchWiki wrote:

HFS+ partitions, now the default in OS X, are not fully supported by Linux and are mounted as read-only by default. In order to write to an HFS+ partition, it is necessary to disable journaling. This can be accomplished using the OS X Disk Utility.

See the full entry here

sonnenschein · 2015-01-12 08:15:09

As you might guess, I may read it with overseeing the journaling-part. But isn't it just to writing? But thanks, I'll give it a try!

sonnenschein · 2015-01-12 12:33:10

Works perfectly !1!1! O.O
Thanks

clfarron4 · 2015-01-12 13:20:49

sonnenschein wrote:

Works perfectly !1!1! O.O
Thanks

That's good news (for filesystem checking in Arch)!

I always thought that you do write to the disk as part of the fsck process, so I assumed that would be first thing to check.

Only thing is whether running a file system without journaling is a good idea... I dunno whether it is because I dunno what it does.

Arch Linux

#1 2015-01-12 07:52:53

[SOLVED] No partitions on HFS+ Volume

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Re: [SOLVED] No partitions on HFS+ Volume

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