Read HFS+ external disk plugged in the USB port?

Read HFS+ external disk plugged in the USB port?

Postby raidsm » Sun Dec 11, 2016 12:23 am

is it possible to read a HSF+ (Mac osX partition) on a usb external HD plugged into the USB port?

Can/will it be implemented in the next release? :please

thanks and have a nice week end !
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Re: Read HFS+ external disk plugged in the USB port?

Postby raidsm » Sun Dec 11, 2016 12:36 am

when I type fdisk -l for /dev/sdb2 it says unknown...
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Re: Read HFS+ external disk plugged in the USB port?

Postby raidsm » Sun Dec 11, 2016 3:45 am

Ok I just saw that the hfsplus module is not present in the fw kernel. Is there an easy fix? i.e.: copying some file and activate the module?
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Re: Read HFS+ external disk plugged in the USB port?

Postby fvdw » Sun Dec 11, 2016 12:23 pm

I will have a look, which kernel are you using?
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Re: Read HFS+ external disk plugged in the USB port?

Postby raidsm » Sun Dec 11, 2016 1:12 pm

For now 4.6.6. Tanks fvdw!
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Re: Read HFS+ external disk plugged in the USB port?

Postby fvdw » Sun Dec 11, 2016 1:39 pm

well 3.14.2 has support for hfs and hfs plus
Code: Select all
# CONFIG_AFFS_FS is not set
CONFIG_HFS_FS=y
CONFIG_HFSPLUS_FS=y
CONFIG_HFSPLUS_FS_POSIX_ACL=y

but 4.6.6 not yet
Code: Select all
# CONFIG_HFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_HFSPLUS_FS is not set


I will recompile 4.6.6 with hfs and hfs plus support
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Re: Read HFS+ external disk plugged in the USB port?

Postby raidsm » Sun Dec 11, 2016 1:42 pm

Oh well I'm looking into it since I upgraded to 4.6.6 what a bad timing :)

But in 3.14 my hfs partition would not mount when plugged in? Did I had to mount it manually?
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Re: Read HFS+ external disk plugged in the USB port?

Postby fvdw » Sun Dec 11, 2016 10:42 pm

probably yes as the firmware doesn't support hfs and hfs plus mounting by default.
The compiler is running , tomorrow evening I will post the new 4.6.6 kernel with hfs support and the debug warnings turned off
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Re: Read HFS+ external disk plugged in the USB port?

Postby fvdw » Sun Dec 11, 2016 11:05 pm

Its already done, new kernel and modules can be found here

viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2345&p=24268#p24268
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Re: Read HFS+ external disk plugged in the USB port?

Postby raidsm » Mon Dec 12, 2016 12:38 pm

Thank you very much fvdw I'll try this tonight when I get home and report back! I will then be able to make a backup on my time capsule via USB instead of using rsync. I think USB is quite slow tho ;)
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