I am using Ubuntu 24.04 desktop.
I have already install hfsutils via
sudo apt install hfsutils
But when I invoke it
sudo mkfs.hfs /dev/sdb9
I still get "command not found" error. Why?
is mounting journaled HFS+ partitions as r/w with hfsprogs and "-o force" prams safe? I mean, will power failure broke filesystem and etc.? Or is it as safe as ntfs on Linux?
Trying to extract data from a 'bricked' Western Digital MyBook Live 2tb drive.
I came across a forum that advised to use Ubuntu (booted from a CD) on my Macbook. Managed to download and create a boot CD for Ubuntu (like this little operating system btw). Booted the machine with the CD and plugged the drive (which I had extracted from it's casing and placed into a external USB SATA case & plugged to the laptop). The drive is seen by Ubuntu but each time I click on the drive, it gives me the following error:
Unable to mount 2.0 TB Filesystem
Error mounting: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb4, missing codepage or helper program, or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog -try dmesg | tail or so
I am new to this and spent quite some time searching this site to see if I could find a solution to this problem without troubling anyone. I came up with a few that came close but some of the questioners mentioned that they had lost data...which scared me from going further. I need to basically extract 1 particular folder from the drive. If I can get to mount this volume 'sdb4', there is a folder called 'My_Work' which I need to back up. The rest I have/had a copy of.
When I typed in dmesg | tail...I got several lines..but I think ones that are relevant are:
[ 406.864677] EXT4-fs (sdb4): bad block size 65536
[ 429.098776] hfs: write access to a journaled filesystem is not supported, use the force option at your own risk, mounting read-only
[ 439.786365] hfs: write access to a journaled filesystem is not supported, use the force option at your own risk, mounting read-only
[ 445.982692] EXT4-fs (sdb4): bad block size 65536
[ 1565.841690] EXT4-fs (sdb4): bad block size 65536
I read somewhere to try/check 'sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdb4'. It gave me the following result:
Disk /dev/sdb44: 1995.8 GB, 1995774623744 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 242639 cylinders, total 3897997312 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Disk /dev/sdb4 doesn't contain a valid partition table
This is where I reached and got frustrated and decided to try & get help on this without digging myself deeper into a hole! I understand that the answer may already be out there. If so, could someone please point me in the right direction. And if not, could someone please resolve (if possible) my situation!
I installed Ubuntu and Windows on my MacBook and Ubuntu is my primary OS; however, all of my media stays on my OSX partition. I want to be able to access it (at least my OSX user's home folder) from Ubuntu without having to launch a media player (or anything else) as root. Also, because I occasionally want to fire up my machine in OSX, I don't want to change anything that I would need to change back frequently (I read a lot about changing UID--I don't exactly understand what this entails, but I wouldn't want to have to change my UID back and forth depending on which OS I'm using. Similarly, I don't want to change file system permissions back and forth).
Also, I saw something about a "noowner" option, but that doesn't seem to do what I want it to.
So I guess I'd like to be able to do something like this:
sudo mount -t hfsplus -o noowner /dev/sda2/ /media/Mac
And then be able to access all of my media (at least everything in my OSX user's Home folder) without dropping in as root. (for clarity: the above command line entry doesn't do what I want it to do, but I want to be able to do something similar).
Or would it be better to change my UID? And if so, how?
How well does Ubuntu support HFS+ (i.e. Mac formatted) filesystems? Can it read and write to them, and are there any potential problems to watch out for?