Re: mount USB drive read-write but only got read-only so far

[Adam Hardy <adam.ant@cyberspaceroad.com>]

Camaleón on 15/08/10 15:56, wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 15:23:25 +0100, Adam Hardy wrote:
>
> (...)
>
> > It seems most people have other problems with Time Machine back-ups like
> > just reading them at all or creating them, and I haven't found anybody
> > talking about what I can do to share the hard drive with one.
> >
> > And if I can mount it read-write, will it stuff the Time Machine
> > back-up? I guess I can experiment, the back-up's not critical to keep at
> > this time.
>
> Why not make 2 partitions of ~500 GiB for each of you? That way things 
> wont be messed and you can choose different filesystems and permissions 
> for the stored files :-?

Yes, OK I guess that's the best way.

After thrashing around like a psycho in a straight-jacket for a while, I saw 
this in /var/log/messages which probably explains the problem:

Aug 15 14:38:58 localhost kernel: [174941.037671] hfs: write access to a 
journaled filesystem is not supported, use the force option at your own risk, 
mounting read-only.