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This is a very basic thing and I cannot get my Ubuntu on mac book pro to write mac external hard drive. It is read only.

I followed the instruction on the website below in parentheses and reached

sudo mount -t hfsplus -o force,rw /dev/sdxy /media/mntpoint

(How to read and write HFS+ journaled external HDD in Ubuntu without access to OS X?) What is /media/mntpoint and what do i put in the code?

Therefore I cannot get my mac external hard drive to write. It can only read.

Please help.

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/media/mntpoint is just a folder on your hard drive where the mount command is going to mount the partition of the drive to. Look on your hard drive and look in the /media folder. You should see other folders in there that are mount points. You can create a folder for that mount point of your choosing.

An example:

mkdir -p /media/mac

the above line would create a folder called mac in the /media folder that you can use to mount your Mac drive to.

So, the mount command would then be:

sudo mount -t hfsplus -o force,rw /dev/sdxy /media/mac

where you would now access the folders on that drive in the /media/mac folder on the drive. Once in that folder you should be the contents of the Mac drive.

If it is already mounted, try the following line to remount the drive:

sudo mount -f hfsplus -o remount,force,rw /dev/sdc2

this is assuming that /dev/sdc2 is your Mac drive partition.

Hope this helps!

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