Subject: Re: Access to HFS+ Partition?
From: Hollis R Blanchard (hollis+@andrew.cmu.edu)
Date: Thu May 03 2001 - 09:51:58 MDT
On Thu, 3 May 2001, Matthew 'Fringe' Duhan wrote:
> On Thu, 3 May 2001, Chris Ruprecht wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >
> >I'm trying to access my HFS+ partition under Linux but it keeps telling me
> > that this type is not supported. I'm using the stock standard kernel, the
> > one which came with CS 1.2.1. What do I have to enable/install/tweak to
> > make this work?
>
> I seem to recall reading somewhere that Linux does not support HFS+.
> Therefore, it is impossible to mount an HFS+ partition or external drive.
While the kernel does not (so you can't 'mount -t hfsplus'), you should get
hfsplusutils from http://penguinppc.org/files/users/hasi/ , which while
slightly buggy allows read-only access to your HFS+ disks.
-Hollis
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