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On 07/08/15 20:17, Björn Grohmann wrote: > Hello all (20:17 7.8.2015) am looking for advice on how to mount an > HPFS+ partition as rw read write in Linux please. To give a little > background to my question...a MacBook user friend who shal remain > nameless, deleted important files. Now the MacBook does not boot to its > OS anymore. I can see the files (read only) in Trash. I want to restore > them to their original folders, but cannot as the target drive mounts as > ro read only. The target drive is connected externally to my Linux Mint > system via a usb cable. As root I can issue the usual 'mount -o rw > /dev/sdb2 /mnt/sdb2' but get the following message > > mount: warning: /mnt/sdb2/ seems to be mounted read-only > > Have been reading Google & other search sites for some time with no joy. > I hope that some brave soul on here has experienced something similar > and emerged wiser than I have. > > Björn Please trust me on this: I have been down this route a million times. You can *not* use linux to fix this. You will need another fully functional Mac. The filesystem is not only damaged but is also natively HFS+, which linux can not reliably handle without removing the journal (making it just HFS). If you mount that disk r/w under linux you're going to make things so, so much worse. Feel free to ask for more help, I don't mean to just piss on your fireworks :/ Cheers * many, many years supporting Apple $STUFF -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq