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How do i get full support (read/write) for HFS (Mac partitions)?

I wouldlike to know how do i get write and read support for HFS+ drives?

ataraxia

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Re: How do i get full support (read/write) for HFS (Mac partitions)?

It's there, in the standard kernel26. I have an HFS+ disk in a firewire enclosure that works just fine.

jofa

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Re: How do i get full support (read/write) for HFS (Mac partitions)?

You might need to

modprobe hfsplus

before mounting the device as root.

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Re: How do i get full support (read/write) for HFS (Mac partitions)?

can i add it to modules in rc.conf? Its something i will use alot.

ataraxia

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Re: How do i get full support (read/write) for HFS (Mac partitions)?

Try it without modprobing first - I don't even need to do that. If you do need to load the module, sure any module can go into rc.conf.

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Re: How do i get full support (read/write) for HFS (Mac partitions)?

What do you need to do to get write support?

(I have not tried it yet.)

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Re: How do i get full support (read/write) for HFS (Mac partitions)?

Yes, just put it in the modules list of rc.conf. That is what I do and it works just fine. It provides full read/write support which makes it an excellent way to access an external HDD and use it trade files back and forth with a Mac.

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Fork

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Re: How do i get full support (read/write) for HFS (Mac partitions)?

I I can't write on it, have you changed any settings in Mac OS?

EDIT I tried disabling the journaling, did not work, damn.

EDIT i mate it, but i can only write in folders inside the drive and not to the root of the drive, is there a way around it?

Last edited by Fork (2007-08-28 01:10:30)

ataraxia

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Re: How do i get full support (read/write) for HFS (Mac partitions)?

The same permissions are enforced on HFS+ disks in Linux as they are in MacOSX. Check the perms, and if necessary, use sudo.

Fork

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Re: How do i get full support (read/write) for HFS (Mac partitions)?

How do i do that?

harlekin

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Re: How do i get full support (read/write) for HFS (Mac partitions)?

You can check permissions with `ls -l` and set them with `chmod`. Be careful when changing those permissions and refer to the wiki articles [1] and man pages for the command's syntax.

man ls
man chmod

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chmod

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thegnu

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Re: How do i get full support (read/write) for HFS (Mac partitions)?

Doesn't work here, and I'm using a USB disk that was formatted with Time Machine...  If I find anything, I'll let you guys know.

Plus, I'm running as root, and running mount with -t hfsplus -o rw

root /mnt/osx #  ls -al
total 40976
drwxrwxr-x 1 nobody nobody       14 2008-04-12 18:16 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 root   root        144 2008-04-12 19:29 ..
-r-------- 1 nobody nobody       16 2008-04-12 18:14 .0019e340a7c4
-rw-rw-r-- 1 nobody nobody     6148 2008-04-12 18:17 .DS_Store
dr-xr-xr-t 1 root   root        125 1903-12-31 19:00 .HFS+ Private Directory Data?
drwx------ 1 nobody nobody        3 2008-04-12 18:14 .Spotlight-V100
d-wx-wx-wt 1 nobody nobody        2 2008-04-12 19:18 .Trashes
-rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody        0 2008-04-12 18:14 .com.apple.timemachine.supported
drwx------ 1 nobody nobody      184 2008-04-12 18:49 .fseventsd
---------- 1 root   root   41943040 2008-04-12 18:14 .journal
---------- 1 root   root       4096 2008-04-12 18:14 .journal_info_block
drwxr-xr-x 1 root   nobody        3 2008-04-12 18:16 Backups.backupdb
drwxr-xr-x 1 nobody nobody        2 2008-04-12 18:16 data

Last edited by thegnu (2008-04-12 23:38:25)

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