hello rick... * Rick Buitenman <rickmb@xs4all.nl> [2004-01-26 15:54 +0100]: > Several Gentoo ppc users (including myself) are reporting the problem of > suddenly only being able to mount their hfs+ partitions read-only. > > dmesg says: > HFS+-fs warning: Filesystem was not cleanly unmounted, running > fsck.hfsplus is recommended. leaving read-only > > A little googling tells me this problem is not unique to one single > distribution: > > http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-January/msg00711.html > http://jodok.muellers.ms/linuxppc/ > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=119954 > http://linux.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/comp.os.linux.development.system/2003-11/0019.html > > fsck.hfsplus doesn't seem to exist in any distribution (?) > Remounting only seems to work in some cases. > Fixing the partition from OSX doesn't solve the problem. > The partition remains writable under OSX directly and via MOL. > > In some cases the problem simply disappears for no apparent reason. well, i have exactly the same problem. but i found a work around for that: mount the hfs+ partition via hpmount from the package hfsplus ( http://www.penguinppc.org/usr/ftp/pub/hfsplus/hfsplus.src.tar.gz). this by itself does not mount the partition at all, but stops with an error message (v1.0.4). though something is done with that partition, because afterwards, i can mount it for writing again in the regular way with "mount -t hfsplus" (recent benh-2.6 kernel). hth, sebastian -- ::: .O. ::: ..O ::: OOO ::: lynx -source http://www.kodeaffe.de/shensche.pub | gpg --import
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