I got a new MacBook from work and need to migrate files from my old Dell notebook running Xubuntu Linux.\u00c2\u00a0 Luckily, I had recovered a drive from a bricked machine that was donated to pages that I could use to transfer the files.<\/p>\n
I don’t like the Fat32 file system, so I formatted the external drive as hfs+.\u00c2\u00a0 My workstation, running Debian, mounted the drive fine, but I couldn’t write.\u00c2\u00a0 I found that I had to disable journaling<\/a> on the drive before I could write it in Linux:<\/p>\n Note: that command has to be run on the Mac.<\/p>\n Once I did this, I could write to the disk, but only as root.\u00c2\u00a0 Permissions of hfsplus partition<\/a>, a thread on the Ubuntu message boards, provides this insight which is likely the case:<\/p>\n I got a new MacBook from work and need to migrate files from my old Dell notebook running Xubuntu Linux.\u00c2\u00a0 Luckily, I had recovered a drive from a bricked machine that was donated to pages that I could use to transfer the files.<\/p>\n I don’t like the Fat32 file system, so I formatted the external drive as hfs+.\u00c2\u00a0 My workstation, running Debian, mounted the drive fine, but I couldn’t write.\u00c2\u00a0 I found that I had to disable journaling<\/a> on the drive before I could write it in Linux:<\/p>\n Note: that command has to be run on the Mac.<\/p>\n Once I did this, I could write to the disk, but only as root.\u00c2\u00a0 Permissions of hfsplus partition<\/a>, a thread on the Ubuntu message boards, provides this insight which is likely part of the problem (since the mountpoint of the hfs+ formatted drive has uid:gid 99:99 on my Linux box):<\/p>\n I have to preface my entry with the warning that I am a complete newbie. I was having the same problem with accessing my files on my hfs+ partition. What I discovered is that by default OSX doesn’t allow any access for the gid for files and folders in your User’s folders. I don’t know if this is the wisest thing, but I went into the Finder, did a “Get Info” on all the files\/folders I wanted to access in Ubuntu, I then went under permissions and switched the Group ID to something I could use in Ubuntu. I then made sure that the line in the fstab that mounts my hfs+ partition had a “gid=XXX” statement that matched what I set in OSX. I also made sure that the user I was using in Ubuntu was part of the group mentioned above. If this doesn’t make sense, let me know and I will clarify. Also, if you need help with OSX permissions, here is a link to an Apple KB article: http:\/\/docs.info.apple.com\/article.html?artnum=107039<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I got a new MacBook from work and need to migrate files from my old Dell notebook running Xubuntu Linux.\u00c2\u00a0 Luckily, I had recovered a drive from a bricked machine that was donated to pages that I could use to transfer the files. 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$ diskutil disableJournal \/Volumes\/ghingexternal<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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$ diskutil disableJournal \/Volumes\/ghingexternal<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n