Trying to mount my old MACBook HDD HFS+ onto ubuntu 20.04.05

Bobbie Sockx

12/11/23, 6:40 PM

The power button on my MacBook Pro stopped working. While I source a new one I'm trying to access and copy some files I need off the HDD which I have slaved through a USB connection.

When I connect the 2.5" HDD Ubuntu sees it but won't mount it. See screenshot Unable to mount MacBook HDD

Here is a screen shot of what the USB HDD looks like in disks. See screenshot 500GB HDD

I've tried these commands and got the below results. sudo mount /dev/sdb mount: /dev/sdb: can't find in /etc/fstab. sudo mount /dev/sdb2 mount: /dev/sdb2: can't find in /etc/fstab. sudo mount -t hfsplus -o force,rw /dev/sdb /media/mntpoint mount: /media/mntpoint: mount point does not exist.

It also seems the thing to do on these kind of issues is to run lsusb so the results are below Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0a5c:216c Broadcom Corp. BCM43142A0 Bluetooth Device Bus 001 Device 003: ID 05c8:036e Cheng Uei Precision Industry Co., Ltd (Foxlink) Webcam Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:8000 Intel Corp. Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 003 Device 004: ID 152d:0578 JMicron Technology Corp. / JMicron USA Technology Corp. JMS567 SATA 6Gb/s bridge Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

I'm a total newbie and have no idea where to go from here, can anyone help?

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Matias N Goldberg

12/11/23, 6:56 PM

See https://askubuntu.com/questions/332315/how-to-read-and-write-hfs-journaled-external-hdd-in-ubuntu-without-access-to-os

ChanganAuto

12/11/23, 6:59 PM

Indeed ^^^ old but mostly valid.

Bobbie Sockx

12/14/23, 9:27 PM

Perfect, file system checked, sorted and now the HDD is mounted as required. :)

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