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2009-05-24, 16:08
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Hi All, Simple and quick question can a Linux based machine read and write to an Mac OS Extended Journal Hard Drive (HFS+)?
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Last time i tried (about a year ago) HFS+ could only be mounted read-only.
If you want to have write support to your MacOS partition, you could convert it to normal HFS (non-journaled).
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The journal is just used for transactions to the FS. So long as it was cleanly unmounted, the journal is empty.
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I have a hfs+ formatted hardrive and can read and write to it without any problems, most of the time. My problem is that if my system ever crashes this drive becomes read only. My understanding is that this is because when the system crashes it doesn't unmount the drive correctly.
At the moment I'm having to get my Mac laptop plug the drive in and then unmount it from the mac this allows me to have read write access again. Is there any way that I can fully unmount the drive in Linux so I don't have to keep pluggin it in to my mac. Thanks for any help.
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As a quick follow up to this, as somewhat of a Linux n00b, could anybody set me on the right course as to how I could go about getting my XBMC live USB stick install to recognise and read a Mac (HSF) drive autonatically upon boot?