HFS Plus or HFS+ is a file system developed by Apple Inc. to replace their Hierarchical File System (HFS) as the primary file system used in Macintosh computers (or other systems running Mac OS).
Questions tagged [hfs+]
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Mounting HFS+ partition on Arch Linux
I'm having some problems with mounting an hfs+ partition on Arch Linux.
When I run sudo mount -t hfsplus /dev/sda2 /mnt/mac I get this error:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda2,
missing codepage or helper program, or…
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Mac OS X not reporting directory sizes correctly?
In Finder, I've noticed that if I duplicate some .app files (in the Applications folder), Finder will show that the duplicate .app file is not the same size as the original. This file size discrepancy does not happen for all .app files that I…
pacoverflow
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Problems with mounting HFS+ drives
I have a problem mounting some hfsplus drives. I just need them mounted readonly. (disabling journal is not an option) I did a lot of research and found out that due to changes from kernel version 2.6.37 to 2.6.38 the problem started.
Have a look…
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Read/Write HFS+ Partitions in Windows
Is there any way or software to read/write HFS+ partitions in Windows?
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What filesystem can I use for a large amount of small-sized data?
I was copying ~3.7TB of data from one 4TB external drive with HFS+ filesystem, to another 4TB external drive with an exFAT filesystem. The new HDD got filled after only ~75% of the data could be transferred, due to, I am guessing, the allocation…
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how to access resource fork of hfs+ filesystem on linux
I have an HFS+ filesystem image recovered from a failing Mac harddrive and can loopback mount it on my Linux machine. How can I access the resource forks for the files in this filesystem from the Linux machine?
(I do not have a Mac with the…
retracile
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By-passing default permissions when mounting HFS+ volumes in linux
I have a dual booting macbook pro with Snow Leopard and Kubuntu 11.10, and want to read (don't care about write) my home Mac home directory when I'm running Kubuntu.
I can mount it without any problems, but my user on Kubuntu on can't see the files…
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Mount a HFSPlus disk with read/write permissions in Linux
I realise that this question is similar in nature to this question, but I'm hoping to specifically bring more attention to an additional problem in one of the comments of this answer to that question.
I've taken out the hard drive of an old…
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Free NTFS partition recovery after disk was formatted in Mac OS X
I have a 1Tb disk which was partitioned into a ~700gb ntfs disk and a 300gb HFS+ (Mac OS X). I've accidentally allowed Mac OS X to wipe the hard-disk and create a single HFS+ partition over the hard-drive. I want to recover my NTFS…
user12508
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What Unix-like filesystem can easily and safely be mounted on both the Mac and Linux?
For a USB drive I'm looking for a file system (and/or fs creation options) that
can be mounted without third-party drivers on both a current OS X (>= 10.7.x) and a recent Linux kernel (say stock Ubuntu 12.10)
with write support
supports as much…
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Finding the file that is on a bad block on a HFS+ volume (debugfs for HFS+)
I have a drive in our iMac that has bad blocks, as booting from an Ubuntu 11.10 live CD and using ddrescue -f /dev/sda /dev/null finds them. I'd like to get the drive to remap them by writing to the blocks, say using hdparm --write-sector, but I…
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How to transfer a Time Machine to an NTFS partition (or how to copy HFS+ hard links)
Do you know a way to copy HFS+ hard links to a folder on a HFS+ or NTFS drive?
Before you say it can't be done, I don't want actual backing up functionality of Time Machine, just the ability to restore files that have been backed up.
I have 2 time…
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Mounting HFS+ partition in Ubuntu
Update: I was able to solve the problem with this solution
I want to read data from my SSD from my broken MacBook.
I connected it to my Ubuntu 16.04 PC and used the command given in the third answer:
sudo mount -t hfsplus -o force,rw /dev/sdx#…
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Reliable HFS+ Journaled mount in any OS for ARMv6
I need an operating system for ARMv6 (Raspberry Pi) that can reliably mount HFS+ Journaled as read/write, with volume sizes up to 16TB.
I've not been able to find details on how stable HFS+ Journaled is in the latest versions of the Linux…
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How do I determine what file occupies a given sector in Mac OS X?
There are similar questions for Windows and Linux, but I need this on OS X. The filesystem is HFS+, journaled. I have a sector LBA, I could find where a partition starts with gpt (though it refuses to work for mounted volumes), but I need something…
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