I am having difficulty writing to an external HD. When I plug it in, it mounts but only as read-only.
I have installed
sudo apt-get install hfsprogs
I have tried the following, from
How to read and write HFS+ journaled external HDD in Ubuntu without access to OS X?
This involved unmounting the drive
sudo umount /dev/sdf1
Creating a new mount point
sudo mkdir /media/ext2
and then
sudo mount -t hfsplus -o force,rw /dev/sdf1 /media/ext2
This did not work. I have also tried deleting this mount point
sudo rmdir /media/ext2
Recreating it and trying again but no luck.
Any further suggestions - I know this has been asked ad nauseum but none of the available solutions have worked for me.
Many thanks
EDIT: The HD was originally used on a Mac and was journaled. I disabled this and remounted in my Ubuntu system. Still impossible to write to it. Ubuntu is truly rubbish - you spend all day trying to figure out how to do the simplest things.