Trying to access music folder in OSX partition.

**mrmayor92** · October 22nd, 2010

Hi, I am trying to access my music folder in my OSX partition but every time I click double click on it I get an error message that says "You do not have the permissions necessary to view the contents of "Music". I would really like to use Ubuntu more because I find it to be a wonderful experience so any help is appreciated, thanks!

I am running a Macbook Pro 5,5 if that helps.

**linux-hack** · October 22nd, 2010

well you just need to mount it as root.

so you open a terminal and type this :
You create first the macosx folder with

Code:

sudo mkdir /mnt/macosx

after you mount the partition with this command :

Code:

sudo mount -t hfsplus /dev/sda1 /mnt/macosx

The sda1 is an example. You need to put the name of your partition that you can get with

Code:

sudo fdisk -l

if you want it permanently you need to put this in the /etc/fstab
a line like this :

Code:

/dev/sda1 /mnt/macosx hfsplus defaults 0 0

**mrmayor92** · October 23rd, 2010

Originally Posted by linux-hack

well you just need to mount it as root.

so you open a terminal and type this :
You create first the macosx folder with

Code:

sudo mkdir /mnt/macosx

after you mount the partition with this command :

Code:

sudo mount -t hfsplus /dev/sda1 /mnt/macosx

The sda1 is an example. You need to put the name of your partition that you can get with

Code:

sudo fdisk -l

if you want it permanently you need to put this in the /etc/fstab
a line like this :

Code:

/dev/sda1 /mnt/macosx hfsplus defaults 0 0

Pardon me for being a complete noob in ubuntu, but for step two the name of my partition is two words "Macintosh HD" do I type in the space or an underscore? And how do I go about editing the /etc/fstab file and where do I put

Code:

/dev/sda1 /mnt/macosx hfsplus defaults 0 0

Again thank you!

**linux-hack** · October 24th, 2010

Ok. So to edit the /etc/fstab file you type this in a terminal :

Code:

gksudo gedit /etc/fstab

And paste in:

Code:

/dev/sda1 /mnt/macosx hfsplus defaults 0 0

to find out the name of your partition you have to type in a terminal :

Code:

sudo fdisk -l

and post here the output.
The "Macintosh HD" is the label of your partition.

**mrmayor92** · October 25th, 2010

AHH i give up, i cannot figure this out for the life of me. thanks for the help though

**WanderingOak** · October 25th, 2010

You might want to take a look at this thread here. I had a similar problem and was able to fix it by changing my Ubuntu UID so it was identical to my Mac UID. Rather than using the terminal as I did, I would change my UID through 'Users and Groups'. You can get your Mac UID in Ubuntu by examining the details of your Mac directories.