Jonas Smedegaard composed on 2020-02-13 18:35 (UTC+0100): > Debian (and Linux in general) supports read-write access to HFS+ > partitions, but it is unreliable. I would expect it to be difficult to > setup and the result would be unreliable (either because you would end > up depending on the unreliable HFS+ write access, or because you would > end up having a too complex to reliably maintain stack of hacks to work > around the unreliable HFS+ write access).
This is an example of how it goes on my multiboot a2134 iMac running El Capitan: > inxi -S System: Host: i2134 Kernel: 4.12.14-lp151.28.36-default x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Trinity R14.0.7 Distro: openSUSE Leap 15.1 > zypper se -si hfs ... S | Name | Type | Version | Arch | Repository i+ | hfsutils | package | 3.2.6-lp151.3.3 | x86_64 | OSS > grep hfs /etc/fstab /dev/disk/by-id/ata-yada-part2 /macsys hfsplus ro,nofail 0 0 /dev/disk/by-id/ata-yada-part4 /home/macdata hfsplus force,uid=501,gid=100,umask=002,noatime,nofail 0 0 > lsmod | grep hfs hfsplus 118784 3 > df | grep mac /dev/sda2 36997232 14163508 22833724 39% /macsys /dev/sda4 450428928 19288104 431140824 5% /home/macdata > fdisk -l /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb: 14.6 GiB, 15623782400 bytes, 30515200 sectors Disk model: USB Flash Drive Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0x7cfb8c48 Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sdb1 * 48 30515199 30515152 14.6G af HFS / HFS+ > mount | grep sdb1 /dev/sdb1 on /run/media/yada/Lexar type hfsplus (ro,nosuid,nodev,relatime,umask=22,uid=0,gid=0,nls=utf8,uhelper=udisks2) > mount -o remount,rw /run/media/root/Lexar > mount | grep sdb1 /dev/sdb1 on /run/media/yada/Lexar type hfsplus (ro,nosuid,nodev,relatime,umask=22,uid=0,gid=0,nls=utf8,uhelper=udisks2) > mount -o remount,rw /dev/sdb1 > mount | grep sdb1 /dev/sdb1 on /run/media/yada/Lexar type hfsplus (ro,nosuid,nodev,relatime,umask=22,uid=0,gid=0,nls=utf8,uhelper=udisks2) > On another PC here: > inxi -S System: Host: ab250 Kernel: 4.19.0-6-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Trinity R14.0.8 Distro: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) > lsmod | grep hfs hfs 69632 0 > dpkg-query -l | grep hfs ii hfsutils 3.2.6-14 amd64 Tools for reading and writing Macintosh volumes inserting the same USB stick, Konq reports: [quote]Unable to mount this device. Potential reasons include: Improper device and/or user privilege level # happens to root user Corrupt data on storage device # works fine in El Capitan Technical details: org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Error.OptionNotPermitted: Requested filesystem type 'hfsplus' is neither well-known nor in /proc/filesystems nro in /etc/filesystems[/quote] # mount | grep sda # fdisk -l | grep sda1 /dev/sda1 * 48 30515199 30515152 14.6G af HFS / HFS+ # mount -t hfsplus -o rw,force /dev/sda1 /mnt # mount | grep sda /dev/sda1 on /mnt type hfsplus (rw,relatime,umask=22,uid=0,gid=0,nls=utf8) IOW, in Buster at least, hfsplus won't autoload, and even when loaded, TDE won't mount it at all as ordinary user, while root has to remount,rw,force to acquire write permission. -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/
