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Mounting HFS+ with Write Access in Debian

When I decided to reformat and install my Mac Mini with the latest testing version of Debian (lenny, at the time of this writing) I discovered that I couldn’t mount my HFS+ OS X backup drive with write access:

erin:/# mount -t hfsplus /dev/sda /osx-backup [ 630.769804] hfs: write access to a journaled filesystem is not supported, use the force option at your own risk, mounting read-only.

This warning puzzled me because I was able to mount fine before the reinstall and, since the external drive is to be used as the bootable backup for my MBP, anything with “at your own risk” was unacceptable.

I had already erased my previous Linux installation so I had no way of checking what might have previously given me write access to the HFS+ drive. A quick apt-cache search hfs revealed a bunch of packages related to the HFS filesystem. I installed the two that looked relevant to what I was trying to do:

hfsplus - Tools to access HFS+ formatted volumes hfsutils - Tools for reading and writing Macintosh volumes

No dice. I still couldn’t get write access without that warning. I tried loading the hfsplus module and then adding it to /etc/modules to see if that would make a difference. As I expected, it didn’t. I was almost ready to give up but there was another HFS package in the list that, even though it seemed unrelated to what was trying to do, seemed worth a shot:

hfsprogs - mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems

It worked! I have no idea how or why (and I’m not interested enough to figure it out), but after installing the hfsprogs package I was able to mount my HFS+ partition with write access.

Update:

As Massimiliano and Matthias have confirmed in the comments below, the following solution seems to work with Ubuntu 8.04:

From Linux, after installing the tools suggested before, you must run:
mount -o force /dev/sdx /mnt/blabla

Otherwise, in my fstab, I have an entry like this:
UUID=489276e8-7f9b-3ae6-8c73-69b99ccaab9c /media/Leopard hfsplus defaults,force 0 0

Installing Apache 1.3 on Debian Etch

I few days ago I setup a new Linux box to use for testing my web development work. The production environment for the site is hosted on a Linux machine, so I wanted to test it in a Linux environment, not a Windows environment (which is where I currently do my development work). So, I decided to setup a Linux box with Samba, map a network drive, and simply work on my site files directly from the Linux server. This way I can just save my changed file, press refresh in my browser, and see the changes. I’ll explain more about my actual staging setup in a future post.

I did not find very much, if any, information about how to easily setup Apache 1.3 on a Debian 4.0 (Etch) system. Why do I want Apache 1.3 instead of Apache 2? Because I’d like to replicate the production environment as closely as possible. My web host uses Apache 1.3.37, PHP 4.4.3, and MySQL 4.1.21.

I documented the steps I took to get everything setup here on my Wiki. This is the first time I’ve used the Wiki to store information that I would normally post here in my blog, and I’m still trying to figure out how I will decide what information goes on the Wiki and what goes on the blog.

The quick answer to getting Apache 1.3 installed on an Etch system is to edit /etc/apt/sources and change etch to sarge. Then run apt-get update and apt-get install apache. You can make sure you’re going to install Apache 1.3.X beforehand by running the following command: apt-cache showpkg apache and checking which version it displays. It should show something like this:

Package: apache Versions: 1.3.34-4.1(/var/lib/apt/lists/debian.lcs.mit.edu_debian_dists_etch_main_binary-i386_Packages) (/var/lib/dpkg/status)

Posts Tagged: Debian

Mounting HFS+ with Write Access in Debian

Installing Apache 1.3 on Debian Etch

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