mounting hfsplus drive in Ubuntu 12.04

wherbjr35 · 01-11-2014, 11:26 AM

Hello,

I am trying to mount two USB connected drives, both are HFS+ format. Ive installed the three progs (hfsutils, hfsprogs, hfsplus) and tried several mount commands, none of which have allowed me write access to the USB drive. The drive is setup as a backup for a Mac, but my laptop is WinxP/Ubuntu, so I do not know if journaling is the cause of my issues.
Here is my output for the drive in question

Code:

mc@ubuntu:~$ sudo blkid
/dev/sdb2: UUID="dd13ccb0-4a7d-3e32-b137-daf863e4de2c" LABEL="G-DRIVE mobile USB" TYPE="hfsplus"

and when i plug it in, this is how it mounts

Code:

mc@ubuntu:~$ mount
/dev/sdb2 on /media/G-DRIVE mobile USB type hfsplus (ro,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks)

I tried this mount command, based on its popularity in other posts, but I get a message about appearing to be read-only

Code:

sudo mount -o force /dev/sdb2 /mnt/usbdrive

Lastly, I did run fsck.hfsplus and it came back perfect. So what am I missing here? I had (but have since removed) an entry in fstab for the UUID of the drive. I removed it b/c I wasnt sure I thought it was conflicting with the manual mount i attempted.

lleb · 01-11-2014, 05:23 PM

sadly the HFS+ format is very flacky for access via Linux and there is none, that I am aware of for MS, your best bet is to get your hands on a MAC, and share it out via either SAMBA or NFS and mount the share properly.