Mounting hfs+ external drive in Linux

[timswim78]

EDIT: The partition has journaling enabled. Consequently, I cannot make it read/write unless I disable journaling, which can only be done with a Mac. So, I need to find a Mac and copy the files to another drive or disable journaling (risky move) on this drive. Ugggh.

Hi All--

I have an external drive with four partitions on it. One of the partitions is an HFS+ partition.

I want to copy files from the HFS+ to folders on the Ubuntu machine.

The paritions mount on my desktop, and I can see the folders, but I get the error message "The folder contents could not be displayed. You do not have the permissions necessary to view the contents of "Desktop".

So, I tried opening Nautilus with sudo. I can then see the contents in the folders, but I cannot copy them to the Ubuntu machine. I get this message. "There was an error copying the file into /home/tim/Desktop. Error opening file: Permission denied"

I tried a recursive CHMOD to change the folder permissions, but I get messages saying that the file system is read only. I think that I need to umount the HFS+ partition it and remount it as rw, before I can CHMOD the file permissions. That is where my lacking Linux skills hurt me. What commands do I need to use to unmount and remount the partition as rw?

I have tried this, but the drive still gets remounted as read only.

sudo umount/dev/sdb2
sudo mount /dev/sdb2 -t hfsplus -o rw /mnt

 

[jhu]

use a terminal and sudo cp your files over. if that doesn't work, login as root and sudo cp. if that doesn't work, i don't know.

 

[sourceninja]

yea, I would just use the terminal and sudo -i to become root and copy the files over from there.

 

[ArisVer]

# man fstab