Re: Mount HFS+

[Kevin Mark <kevin.mark@verizon.net>]

On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 10:49:00PM -0800, webjay wrote:
> How do I mount a hfsplus GUID partition table drive in Debian Etch?
> It's a LaCie 500gb USB drive. I can mount and rw on my Mac.
> 
> # mount -t hfsplus -r /dev/sda /mnt/usbdisk
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda,
>        missing codepage or other error
>        In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
>        dmesg | tail  or so
> 
> # dmesg | tail
> hfs: unable to find HFS+ superblock
> 
> #fdisk -l:
> Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> 
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1               1       60802   488386583+  ee  EFI GPT
> 
> 
IIRC you need to load a kernel modules for HFS+ file system support. Not
sure which one as I've no mac at the moment.
-K
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