Mounting HFS drives

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I have tried to mount an external drive formatted as HFS doing:

$ mount -t hfsplus /dev/sda1 /mnt/macdrive

I get the following error message:

mount: unknown filesystem type 'hfsplus'

I use Ubuntu on a different computer and while the disk is not writable at least I can mount it and read from it. Does anybody know what the problem might be? Thanks.

JM
 
install the hfsplus tools.

Code: 
aptitude install hfsplus

I have no mac drive here but I assume this will help.
 
Hi Tom,

Thanks. Following your advice, I did that but I'm still getting the error message:

mount: unknown filesystem type 'hfsplus'

Apparently I'm not the only one with this problem. I have done some googling and I see many postings where people say that this happens because HFS+ is not included in the kernel build.

I did # grep _HFS /boot/config-*

And indeed apparently HFS is not included since I get this result:

CONFIG_NET_SCH_HFSC=m
# CONFIG_HFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_HFSPLUS_FS is not set

This goes beyond me. How does one change the kernel from the Proxmox installation?

Josep M.
 
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seems that the kernel module is missing, pls file a bug/request at bugzilla.proxmox.com
 
Filed. Thanks!

Until it gets fixed, would there any way for me to install this module in the current kernel without breaking things? I've done a bit of googling but I haven't found any useful help.

JM
 
jfontana said:
Filed. Thanks!

Until it gets fixed, would there any way for me to install this module in the current kernel without breaking things? I've done a bit of googling but I haven't found any useful help.

JM
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try it and test it. then you will see the results.
 
Sorry Tom, I don't understand what you are telling me. Try and test what? If you are talking about the hfsplus module, I haven't been able to find it anywhere. I downloaded and installed a binary called 'hfsplus_1.0.4-12_amd64.deb' that was linked in one of the forums discussing this issue but this didn't fix anything.

JM
 
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I meant you can compile a kernel with module enabled, but this is a demanding task.
 
I see. Thanks. I'll see if I can find some good instructions on how to do this and I can try to do it.

JM
 
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