hfsplus installed, yes hfs+ drive still not mounting

[subtex]

I'm sorry if this is posted in the wrong section, but it does involve a mac formatted drive so I hope it's ok.

I have an external LaCie usb/fw drive that I'm hooking up to my laptop running Netbook Remix.

I've installed hfsplus and hfsutils yet when I plug in this drive is still tells me that it's filesystem is "hfsplus" and it's not supported.

Is there something I need to do to get ubuntu to use the hfsplus module?

This drive works on my desktop running 8.04 (nbot netbook remix).

[mkvnmtr]

If it is journeledd it is not supported. If it is hfsplus extended it will work.

[subtex]

It is hfsplus extended.

It does work on my desktop which was running 8.04. I figured UR which was also based on 8.04 would be the same but apparently it's not.

Is there some test I can do to make sure hfsplus is loaded and running?

[mkvnmtr]

I have an external formated hfsplus. I make a mount point and then mount the drive with commands in the terminal. Then I have to unmount in the terminal. It is not the way I would like to do it but it is the only way I can get it to work. I also then have permission problems. It seems to start out ok but then changes so I have to change permissions in the terminal. It is a pain and I really don't feel good about giving the commands I use to someone else. I am not that sure I am doing it right. Some one that knows should see yuor thread and give you some thing. Be very careful. I have messed up bad enouugh with this problem that I had to reinstall.

[cyberdork33]

It does work on my desktop which was running 8.04. I figured UR which was also based on 8.04 would be the same but apparently it's not.

Is backing up the data and reformatting it to something more compatible out of the question?

[subtex]

Is backing up the data and reformatting it to something more compatible out of the question?

Yeah, it's not my drive. It's a friend's that I'm borrowing to grab data off of.

[pxwpxw]

Yeah, it's not my drive. It's a friend's that I'm borrowing to grab data off of.

If you can run

 dpkg -L hfsplus

Gets a list of what is installed.
Look at the 'man' info, I think you have to manually mount using hfsplus commands.
However I dont have UR.

[subtex]

If you can run

 dpkg -L hfsplus

Gets a list of what is installed.

ok, output of that is here:

/.
/usr
/usr/bin
/usr/bin/hpmount
/usr/bin/hpumount
/usr/bin/hpls
/usr/bin/hpcd
/usr/bin/hpcopy
/usr/bin/hppwd
/usr/bin/hpfsck
/usr/bin/hprm
/usr/bin/hpmkdir
/usr/share
/usr/share/linda
/usr/share/linda/overrides
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/hfsplus
/usr/share/doc/hfsplus/copyright
/usr/share/doc/hfsplus/changelog.gz
/usr/share/doc/hfsplus/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/man
/usr/share/man/man7
/usr/share/man/man7/hfsplus.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man1
/usr/share/man/man1/hpfsck.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/hpls.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/hpmkdir.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/hpmount.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/hppwd.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/hprm.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/hpcd.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/hpcopy.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/hpumount.1.gz

Nothing in the man pages about manually mounting via the terminal.

I'll be leaving work soon, so I'll see what's different about my desktop setup that is letting me automount the mac drive no problem.

Any suggestions on what I should be checking on the machine where this works no problem?

[subtex]

ok, so it's definitely an issue with UNR not loading the hfsplus module.

on my desktop i ran

modprobe -l | grep hfs

and I see:

/lib/modules/2.6.24-23-generic/ubuntu/fs/squashfs/squashfs.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.24-23-generic/kernal/fs/hfs/hfs.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.24-23-generic/kernal/fs/hfsplus/hfsplus.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.24-23-generic/kernal/net/sched/sch_hfsc.ko

on my netbook I see:

/lib/modules/2.6.24-19-lpia/ubuntu/fs/squashfs/squashfs.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.24-19-lpia/kernel/net/sched/sch_hfsc.ko

but what's weirder is the desktop doesn't even have the hfsplus package installed!

so perhaps it's more to do with the fact that UNR is using a different kernel entirely. "lpia" instead of "generic".

?

[pxwpxw]

ok, so it's definitely an issue with UNR not loading the hfsplus module.

on my desktop i ran

modprobe -l | grep hfs

and I see:

/lib/modules/2.6.24-23-generic/ubuntu/fs/squashfs/squashfs.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.24-23-generic/kernal/fs/hfs/hfs.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.24-23-generic/kernal/fs/hfsplus/hfsplus.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.24-23-generic/kernal/net/sched/sch_hfsc.ko

on my netbook I see:

/lib/modules/2.6.24-19-lpia/ubuntu/fs/squashfs/squashfs.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.24-19-lpia/kernel/net/sched/sch_hfsc.ko

but what's weirder is the desktop doesn't even have the hfsplus package installed!

so perhaps it's more to do with the fact that UNR is using a different kernel entirely. "lpia" instead of "generic".

?

EDIT: Yes, just read your post properly - the netbook kernel version just does not have the hfsplus.ko module apparently. Maybe a later version does.

The hfsplus package does not provide a module. The hfsplus package is just a collection of utilities such as hpmount for manual use.

But the bad news is I tried hpmount here for fun, and it has crashed my separate hfsplus partition which MacOSX can no longer mount or repair. ( It's ok, it only had a few files on it.)

Consequently I recommend you trash hfsplus before it does it to you.

The best suggestion seems to be to get a ubuntu810 live cd and run it to copy the files you want. I can't suggest any other safe way to mount it.