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#1 2010-01-29 10:01:07

Mac Tzu
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How to mount HFSplus partition read/write

Hey guys,

having few issue mounting HFSplus as read/write from external usb drive.


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#2 2010-01-29 14:17:22

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Re: How to mount HFSplus partition read/write

I think journaled hfsplus filesystems are still not much usable in Linux (it wasn't when I was battling with it a couple of years ago), but you can use them without journaling.

You can refer to this article from the fine Gentoo folks. hfsprogs is available in the AUR.

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#3 2010-01-29 21:26:21

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Re: How to mount HFSplus partition read/write

Hey I have tried this without success.  I am able to load it fine but read-only ? any further suggesstions >
??


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#4 2010-01-30 12:36:38

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Re: How to mount HFSplus partition read/write

So is it journaled or not?

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#5 2010-01-30 19:38:38

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Re: How to mount HFSplus partition read/write

it is journaled


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#6 2010-01-30 20:37:32

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Re: How to mount HFSplus partition read/write

Disable journaling.

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#7 2010-09-25 18:07:45

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Re: How to mount HFSplus partition read/write

Apologies for raising a dead post, but I have disabled journaling on HFS+ Mac OS X drive and it still mounts as read-only.  One time, it mounted at boot as read-write, but since then, that has not been the case.  I've looked around the forums and checked out solutions from other Linux distros, but so far, I haven't found any simple answers that don't require the use of a number of extra tools that I'd rather not deal with.  If anyone has seen this problem before and knows a simple fix, please let me know!

Thanks for any help,
Rob

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#8 2013-05-15 15:09:07

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Re: How to mount HFSplus partition read/write

Since this shows up in forum searches:

You can't write without disabling journalling first. In OS X this is

sudo diskUtil disableJournal /dev/disk0s1 //replace with the partition you want to disable on

If journalling is disabled but it is mount readonly still make sure you have rw in your mount options and not ro.

If it is STILL mounting readonly (or it mounted once readwrite but won't anymore) you have an error on the filesystem, probably from power loss or the like.

Either boot up OS X and run

sudo diskUtil repairVolume /Volumes/[yourvolume]

Or install hfsprogs and hfsutils from the AUR and run

fsck.hfsplus /dev/sda1 //replace sda1 as appropriate

And reboot, or remount with rw.

Last edited by MisterAnderson (2013-05-15 15:09:23)


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#9 2013-05-15 15:17:41

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Re: How to mount HFSplus partition read/write

You need hfsprogs from teh AUR for r/w capabilities for hfs+.  Though the above responses about journaling are correct, I just want to add one thing.  You can actually write to a journaled HFS+ device from Linux.  You just have to mount it "r/w,force" and it should go. 

I have used this in the past.  The source of info, which I cannot remember or find now, told me that there were risks of data coruption.  I thought, "Whatever.... I'm gonna do it because I live on the f*cking edge!"  For a while it worked, and it worked pretty well.  But then one day.... OSX was totally borked!

So I'd like to add that you should only mount r/w with journaling on if absolutely necessary.  For example, if you might need to change a single parameter in rEFInd conf to get OSX to boot or something, that is probably a safe thing to do.  But mounting it r/w all the time, is no bueno.  Besides, I am not sure that hfsprogs can actually do anything with the journaling anyway, so there are justa  bunch of missing entries if you mount r/w like this.

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#10 2013-05-15 17:39:21

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Re: How to mount HFSplus partition read/write

Moderator: It has been noted that this is an older thread.  From what I see, it remains relevant so I will leave it open.


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#11 2023-07-31 20:02:20

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Re: How to mount HFSplus partition read/write

Thank you MisterAnderson for the repair command, you fixed my issues smile

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#12 2023-07-31 22:10:19

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Re: How to mount HFSplus partition read/write

Please do not necrobump.

Closing this ancient thread.


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