Tuesday, March 07, 2023

HFS+ on Linux - or exFAT for Linux/Windows/Mac compatibility

HFS plus formatted Mac removable SSD (USB external hard disk) was not recognized on Windows and not writable on Linux. 

perhaps can be force mounted?
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=283956

Or perhaps would need journaling turned off?
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/hfsplus

Anyway, with journaling turned off, exFAT is more compatible.

Trying to format it to exFAT on Linux -
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/61209/create-and-format-exfat-partition-from-linux

on my system,
sudo apt-get install exfat-utils exfat-fuse
(all installed already)
and then gparted

But greyed out in gparted - apparently a newer version of gparted is needed - my gparted version was 1.0 - so used Disks instead, OK.

But did not read on Windows. Reformatted in Windows, then OK. Some blocks issue, I guess. Or maybe needs to be GPT? I've not yet tried on Mac.

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