External HFS+ volume not writable

rheinFrohnatur · October 15, 2016 at 5:38 PM

Hi all,

I connected an external HFS+ formatted volume (called "Multimedia") to my Pi3 running LibreELEC. All the content was scanned into the library successfully, however the volume is not writable, only readable.

Code

/dev/sda2 on /var/media/Multimedia type hfsplus (ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec,noatime,umask=22,uid=0,gid=0,nls=utf8)

Any ideas how I can mount it permanently as a writable volume?

Thanks!

**escalade** · October 15, 2016 at 6:05 PM

You can remount with "force,rw" but it is not recommended. The Linux HFS code is old and unmaintained and is known to cause damage to your filesystem. This is true from personal experience You can format with exFAT, it's supported by both LibreELEC and macOS.

**lrusak** · October 15, 2016 at 6:08 PM Official Post

Plug it into mac OSX and disable journaling on the volume.

**chewitt** · October 16, 2016 at 8:21 AM Official Post

Quote from lrusak

Plug it into mac OSX and disable journaling on the volume.

that can lead to data loss on the macOS side and is not recommended, exFAT is the best option.