External HFS+ harddrives

[Esse]

Hi! I have two external Mac-formated (HFS+) harddrives and Bubba recognize them but doesn't mount them - nothing happens when I click mount after Safari or Firefox reloads.

Isnt that filesystem supported? If no what do you recommend?

best regards
/E

[Esse]

The friendly support says no, not yet.

[beaufils]

This filesystem seems to be supported read only now.

I know for sure that I am able to read/write them under Debian using one of hfsplus or hfsutils package.

Unfortunately they are not available in Excito stock APT sources.list.

Any idea where I can get them from ?

[beaufils]

Found a working explanation. Briefly said :

1. be sure to have installed hfsprogs debian package

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apt-get install hfsprogs

2. use the force option when mounting

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mount -o force /dev/sdx /mnt/blabla

Be aware that MacOS X does not use 1000 as first userid

[nobody]

Maybe you should mention that the force option is required because hfsplus support is not considered stable in linux. Althou unstable in linux terms is still very robust, you are not allowed to complain if for some reason your partition gets corrupted.

[ther]

I've attached an external disk to my B3 with HFS+ as filesystem.

I think all I did was to install hfsprogs
when I formatted my disk as HFS+ I also labeled it (I would recommend the use of labels if you plan to make it a persistant part of B3's filesystem, since /dev/sdc2 might be /dev/sdb1 upon a reboot), so my fstab looks kinda like this:

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LABEL="XYZ"	/mount/point	hfsplus	force,rw,defaults,uid=user,nofail	0	2

Where nofail could be important, otherwise there might be some truoble during a reboot if the disk isn't attached to your b3.