HFS write support

[JD]

On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 2:49 AM, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com> wrote:
> On 06/23/2012 04:41 PM, JD wrote:
>> I was trying to find out if linux provided different versions
>> of these tools for the journaled and non journaled HFS.
>
> No....  Journaled HFS+ is *not* supported.
>
> To be more precise....  While you may be able to write to an HFS+ file system that
> has journaling enable there is no guarantee against corruption.
>
> So....if the HFS+ file system was created on an Apple system you *should* use the
> tools on the Apple system to turn off journaling.   Much like turning off journaling
> using tune2fs to change features on extX
>
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Thanx Ed. That's disappointing.
I no longer have the Apple MacBookPro :(