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How to mount a HFS partition in Ubuntu as Read/Write?
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Mar 15, 2026483355 viewsConfidence Score1%
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Problem
I plugged in my external harddrive (which was formatted on my Mac into HFS+ journaled) to my Ubuntu desktop 9.04 64bit. I am not able to get the drive to mount with write capability, how do I do that? Right now all I'm getting is read access, I tried but that still gave me only read access... ideas??
Error Output
sudo mount -t hfsplus /dev/sdf2 /media/"Portable HD"
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First, make sure that you have hfsprogs installed. Example installation command: Next, mount or remount the HFS+ drive; commands need to be as follows: or Finally, if the drive was improperly unmounted or has otherwise become partially corrupted run fsck.hfsplus (provided here by Jayson) as such:
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