You are using Ubuntu or any other linux dist, and have an external drive. You HAVE to format it with HFS+ because you want to use it with a Mac. Grrr...
No panic.. You are able to format your external drive using Ubuntu.. First thing to do is that you have to install "hfsprogs" package. Simply install it by typing the following in a terminal:
sudo apt-get install hfsprogs
Then, you can just use GParted to format your drive. Go to System > Administration > Gparted, select your external drive from the dropdown menu on the right. When you choose to format your disk/partition, you'll see "HFS+" as an option. Select it and wait a little bit. And.. Da daaa.. Now you can use your external drive with a Mac!
Hope it helps!.. Enjoy..
16 comments:
Super!!!!!!!!!!!!1
I'm seeing comments on other sites that says Ubuntu doesn't play nice with journaling on hfs+ filesystems. The pages are older than yours, though. Do you know where this currently stands?
well.. what i can say is give it a try.. because it simply worked for me.. and i think you won't be in trouble with this method..
Thank you so much for this!! I had looked almost everywhere for a quick method to format (HFS+) some unallocated space on an external drive, after shrinking it with GParted.
Thanks a lot! This worked so painlessly. Trying to create a exFAT partition in Windows on an external harddrive with MBR partition table and formerly single NTFS partition (now shrank to half the space) simply did not work. The partition was only recognizable in Windows; both OS X and Ubuntu saw it as unallocated space. GParted did the trick. Now I have a HFS+ drive recognized in both Ubuntu and OS X.
Daniel said...
Thanks so much ...you saved my day .Thanks
that did the trick, thanks!
Thank you so much, this was helpful!
This worked for me. I was just fooling a bit with formatting a USB drive. GParted + hfsprogs combined to format the USB drive. I was then able to plug it into a MacBook Pro and it recognized it right away. When I plugged it back into my Ubuntu laptop I noticed that OSX had added a number of folders and a file:
gorb@blarg:/media/gorb/lkasjdhlakSDJH$ ll
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8 Nov 12 14:29 ./
drwxr-x---+ 4 root root 4096 Nov 12 15:40 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 99 99 6148 Nov 12 14:29 .DS_Store
drwx------ 1 99 99 5 Nov 12 14:29 .fseventsd/
dr-xr-xr-t 1 root root 2 Nov 12 14:24 .HFS+ Private Directory Data?/
drwx------ 1 99 99 5 Nov 12 14:28 .Spotlight-V100/
d-wx-wx-wt 1 99 99 2 Nov 12 14:28 .Trashes/
Excellent solution, worked great. Appreciate the simple, yet effective method and post.
It is great to see that this post is still useful for many ppl :)
It was still useful. Though hfsprogs might not get installed. In that case do:
sudo add-apt-repository universe
followed by
sudo apt-get update
and then you can install hfsprogs as suggested.
Thanks a million i usually work with linux or windows and this saved me hours of frustration-with only a short read. thanks for your share
You are a saviour buddy!!! As well as Awesome!!!
Interesting post. Thanks for the information.
If you need to make it journaled you can do that by going to disk utility on mac and selecting the disk and then going to File > Enable Journaling.
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