hfs+ support on raspberrypi

I use a 16 gb usb stick to transfer hd movies between my mac and my pi. I couldn’t format it fat32 because the 4gb file size limit didn’t work for hd movies. I don’t use any PCs so I didn’t want to have to use NTFS. The best options are installing ext3 on the mac-side or hfs+ on the pi side. I chose to install HFS+ on my Pi. Here’s how.

install hfsutils from apt

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install hfsutils hfsprogs hfsutils

mount drive

create mount point for drive

sudo mkdir /mnt/usbdrive

check drive location:

ls /dev/sd*

You should get a list. Mine is

$ ls /dev/sd*
/dev/sda  /dev/sda1  /dev/sda2

the highest number was plugged in most recently. Mount it with

sudo mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/usbdrive

unmount drive

sudo umount /dev/sda1

You may need to use the -f force option if the drive will not dismount.

sudo umount -f /dev/sda1

credits

from dev tidbits