HFS partition mounting read-only

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I have an external Western Digital Hard drive with two HFS partitions with journaling disabled.

When I connect it to a computer running Linux (Debian or Ubuntu), frequently both partitions are mounted read-only. In the past, mounting them on my Macbook and executing the command to disable the journaling often worked (even though it would tell me that journaling was already disabled) but I would love to have a solution which works every time.

Thanks!

Edit: In light of Chris Johnsen's comment below - my question is how to mount the filesystem read+write on Linux since it is not automatically doing so itself

Opt

Posted 2010-07-09T08:36:08.453

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Question was closed 2016-07-28T12:35:30.230

There was no actual question in your question. Are we to infer that you expect your HFS (probably HFS+?) filesystems to be mounted read+write on Linux? – Chris Johnsen – 2010-07-09T11:30:13.227

Well my question was how to mount the filesystem read+write on Linux since it is not automatically doing so itself. – Opt – 2010-07-11T00:43:52.783

Answers

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You can ask Linux to remount the partition read-write with this command (replace hdb2 as appropriate):

mount -o remount,rw /dev/hdb2

Of course, this may or may not fix your problem :)

legoscia

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