HFS+ not cleanly unmounted

[tom]

Hello everybody,

i have a USB drive (HFS+ not journaled) at my flame. Due to a crash I didn´t unmount the drive and now everything is read only
syslog message:
"hfs: Filesystem was not cleanly unmounted, running fsck.hfsplus is recommended. mounting read-only"
unfortunatly there is no fsck.hfsplus for the flame, and I am not sure wether trying to compile the hfs+tool (which still leaves the question of where to find a recent version) or using hpmount (which is not a good ideas - at least thats what my google researches say)

I was hoping that connecting the disk to a mac and running the disk utility would help. But unfortunatly it didn´t

Does anyone know a workaround to "convince" redhat to accept my hfs+ drive again or how to set the ...consitencybit - without endangering my data?

Any help and ideas are greatly appreciated. If you´re in Munich I would invite you for a Glühwein.

Many thanks in advance,

Tom

[george-s]

If it's able to mount read only I would copy all of your files to another drive or location. before doing anything else.

Once you have a safe copy I can recommend 'disks warrior' for an HFS+ files system.

http://www.alsoft.com/Diskwarrior/index.html

This has consistently given me good results. If it can't repair the issue it gives you the option to create a new directory - under which it will copy everything that is readable. In the past it has been able to fix all but one of my filesystems.

Hope that helps.

Cheers,
George

[tom]

Hi george,
thanks for your answer. i was hoping to get the disk writeable again without copying everything first - but it seems that its not a good idea to have an hfs disk connected to a linux box. so it´s ext3 for now.
cheers,
tom

[whaity]

I think you can just plug the drive in to a mac and use disk utility to fix disk and that should sort it.