HFS+ in Linux

FirebarUK · 23 May 2006 at 10:26

Hi all,

I've got a USB disk that I need to read/write to in Linux. Its formatted with hfs+ as it was originally connected to a mac.

I've got it mounted and can read, but need to write. Is there anything I need to watch out for, I don't want to bugger any permissions up. I presume I could just chmod 777 it all? Then add an entry into fstab to allow rw?

If anyone has done anything similar, whats the best way to allow global/read-write.

FirebarUK · 23 May 2006 at 17:50

Thanks for your reply.

In the end due to having no windows machine's I've formatted some as hfs+ (to back up mac) and some as ext3.

FirebarUK · 23 May 2006 at 18:35

Yep I know, just its a mahoooosive disk (600GB) and I didn't fancy lots of primary & extended partitions. In the end as I don't use Windows it should be fine

Thanks for your help guys.

FirebarUK · 25 May 2006 at 17:44

I've been trying this today. I have no idea, but whenever HFS then goes on after, Linux complains and can't read the partitions. Its v. strange.

FirebarUK · 28 May 2006 at 19:35

Yeah found that utility but obviously requires all mac's the disk will be plugged into to have the app.

Found out it was UFS too, hrrrm

In the end I just opted to create a huge FAT partition, seems do-able under Linux/Unix/Mac and Windows understands it fine. I thought Windows didn't like FAT32 partitions over 32GB?