Questions tagged [hfs+]
HFS+ is a file system developed by Apple Inc. It serves as the primary file system of OS X.
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Why is my hfs partition suddenly mounting read-only, with no way to alter it to read-write?
I am backing up my FreeNAS volume onto a partition of an external WD 4TB My Book, which uses the hfs filesystem and is mounted on my laptop running Ubuntu 16.04. Each time the drive is mounted, all ...
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Mount OSX drive in Ubuntu 14.04
I installed Ubuntu 14.04 in a second partition of a iMac 21.5''.
Now, I need to access to OSX partition but I cannot load it into Ubuntu...
I have hfsprogs, hfsutils and hfsplus installed inside ...
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Is mounting HFS+ r/w safe?
is mounting journaled HFS+ partitions as r/w with hfsprogs and "-o force" prams safe? I mean, will power failure broke filesystem and etc.? Or is it as safe as ntfs on Linux?
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What does it mean if my partition type is HFS/HFS+ but contents are FAT?
I have formatted my external hard disk with the command sudo mkfs.vfat /dev/sda2.
The disks utility still shows that the partition is of type HFS, so is this safe to use at the moment? I want to use ...
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HFS+ external disk always comes back to read only mode
I use an external HFS+ hard drive on Ubuntu 21.10 and MacOs.
To enable read / write on this disk from Ubuntu:
On MacOs, I disabled journaling with sudo diskutil disableJournal /Volumes/my-disk.
On ...
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How to mount macOS partition as read-write for all files/folders?
I have dual-booted my Mac with Ubuntu 16.04 (LTS) and macOS High Sierra (on an HFS+ drive). When I attempt to mount my macOS partition using
sudo mount -t hfsplus -o force,rw /dev/sda2 /mnt
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using gpart & testdisk to recover GPT for Files from damaged HFS+ (Apple) HD
I want to recover gpt from my external USB Hard Disk.
I tried these questions:
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/296151/recover-files-from-corrupted-external-usb-hd-macos-sierra
https://...
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HFS+ drive mounting issues
I'm looking to access data on an external hard drive which is formatted in the HFS+ format (created from/for a mac). After some initial difficulties (and confusion over what format the drive is ...
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Protocol driver not attached (hfs+)
On a 12.04 LTS system, I am attempting to mount an SSD that was formerly in a Macbook Pro. It has four partitions, one with a Ubuntu install, one for swap, one a Macintosh recovery partition, and the ...
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Why is ubuntu setting file type to hfs+
I recently installed Ubuntu desktop onto a raspberry pi for and for some reason it is registering my external hard drive as HFS plus even though I've never used a Mac computer before in my life. Now I ...
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Change the mounting point for a HFS+ formated drive
I followed the instructions in How to read and write HFS+ journaled external HDD in Ubuntu without access to OS X?
I used the command:
sudo mount -t hfsplus -o force,rw /dev/sdXY /media/mntpoint
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How to mount OSX EFI partition with HFSprogs
I can mount my HFS drive without a problem, but mounting the EFI gives wrong filesystem type error, which is probably right, since it is an EFI system.
Device Start End Sectors Size ...
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Video's transferred from HFS+ to Ext4 wont play on Ubuntu
For many year, I had a media server that ran on Mac OS. I recently rebuilt it and I transferred some video files from a HFS+ drive to the Ext4 drive. Now that I am running on Ubuntu 18.04 I can't open ...
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Change file permissions on hfs drive
I was unable to boot macOS on my mac laptop. I took the drive out to try recover my documents un my ubuntu machine. I installed
sudo apt-get install hfsprogs
sudo apt-get install hfsplus
So I could ...
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Failed HFS+ disk diagnosing and recovery in Ubuntu
My external Lacie HDD failed recently. Unfortunately the drive contains a lot of critically important video files of which I had not made a backup.
I am very far from being a specialist in computer ...
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A partition copied with cat can't be mounted
OK, I asked it in AskDifferent, but seems that apple folks don't get the idea that everything is file in unix.
Well some days ago my mac got broken, I had an Ubuntu on it and booted through it, first ...
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12.04LTS virtual kernel: no HFS/+? why?
Utilizing Ubuntu 12.04 Linux virtual kernel and it does not appear to support HFS/+ file system. Even after update/upgrade, manual re-installation of packages hfsplus, hfsprogs, hfsutils --- still ...
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Clean mounting HFS+ partition after power failure
I have a rather large external harddrive formatted in Apple's HFS+ format, and reformatting it is not an option for me. Now that I have a linux server at home, I have turned journalling off on the ...
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is it possible to use an ipod classic3G as external disk with ubuntu 12.04?
I have an ipod classic 30GB. It is partitioned with Apple HFS.
Can I use it as an external drive with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS?
to sudo fdisk -l I get:
Disk /dev/sda: 8006 MB, 8006926336 bytes
247 heads, ...
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Trying to mount my old MACBook HDD HFS+ onto ubuntu 20.04.05
The power button on my MacBook Pro stopped working. While I source a new one I'm trying to access and copy some files I need off the HDD which I have slaved through a USB connection.
When I connect ...
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Partitioning an HFS+/MBR-formatted external drive without data loss
(Likely a duplicate, but Google is failing me)
I have a 2 TB external hard drive, formatted with a single HFS+ partition and an MBR partitioning scheme. It's currently holding a backup of my old ...
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Recover data from hfs hdd
I have a problem with an hdd (FileSystem: hfs). When I plugged it on my pc I can't open it and from Disk this is what I see:[disk info][1].
When I try to mount it manually I get this error: `
mount: ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 Touro External HDD 1TB HFS+ always Read Only
I have External HDD 1TB ex. used with MAC OS mojave.
Now I use Ubuntu 20.04 as my primary OS. When I plug it HDD to ubuntu it's always read only.
I was try this post still no lucky.
this is ...
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Accessing a Macbook Air using Ubunu
So my ancient Macbook air (2013) is non-functional after a failed OS update.
I'd like to use a live distro to backup files from the harddrive (and in an ideal world perhaps even repair the ...
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How to format Read-only filesystem drive?
I can't format a USB drive, it says "read only filesystem".
I tried mkfs.vfat, wipefs -a, using gparted but nothing worked, always returns "Read-only filesystem". The problem seems to be caused by an ...
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Ubuntu reports incorrect available space on HFS external RAID
I have a Stardom 24TB external RAID formatted as HFS+. It shows up as a 24TB disk, but available space is only 66GB when only 6.4TB is used. When mounted in MacOS I get the correct amount of available ...
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Reading HFS+ Journaled filesystem in Ubuntu 17.10
Disks recognizes the device is available but reports the partition as unused (does not recognized HFS+ file system). When I try to mount the drive, Ubuntu wanders off into limbo reporting nothing. ...
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Mac external drives with Ubuntu 16.04
I know someone had already asked a question about mounting HFS+ drives on Ubuntu 16.04, but it was for a server edition. My workstation is not a server. I have however tried every solution proposed to ...
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Mount Mac OS Extended Journaled Filesystem and share via AFP
I see that I can mount a Mount Mac OS Extended Journaled Filesystem on Ubuntu (it seems, after disabling journaling), and that I can share resources on the network via AFP using netatalk.
My question ...
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Mounting HFS+ drive on Ubuntu Server 16.04?
I have Ubuntu 16.04 Server, and I'm trying to mount an HFS+-formatted drive on it. Surprisingly, there is absolutely no kernel support for the hfsplus VFS. I can install the userland tools (APT ...
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Problems with a HFS+ hdd on Ubuntu Server 14.04
I have a 2TB Western Digital HDD with one partition formatted as HFS+.
I tried pretty much everything to make it readable (not even writable) from Ubuntu Server, but had no success.
I tried:
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Plex Media Server on Ubuntu 12.10 - fighting with HFS+ (I guess)
I have Ubuntu 12.10 installed along with Plex Media Server 0.9.7.x (I don't remember, the latest version anyway).
I had Plex set up on a Mac, and I had all of my media content stored in an external ...
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