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Posted: **Sat Apr 25, 2020 3:41 am**

Hi guys !
This is my first post here, so nice to meet you !

Hope you can help me with this, I just configure my raspberry PI 3B+ with RetroPie and put my boot media on a USB drive and my rom files on an HFSplus disk
I follow this guide to move the rom files, no problem here -> https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Se ... -USB-drive
But I try to add both USB drive to the FSTAB files and I can't make the raspberry boot with this changes

this is the current info in my system

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pi@retropie:~ $ ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid/
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Apr 25 04:17 1D8D-D42B -> ../../sda1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Apr 25 04:17 36e09f00-1197-377f-8f97-0901843273f0 -> ../../sdb1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Apr 25 04:17 b5bfbb14-56d1-4eab-a831-0d17cd711a6a -> ../../sda2
pi@retropie:~ $ sudo lsblk -o UUID,NAME,FSTYPE,SIZE,MOUNTPOINT,LABEL,MODEL
UUID                                 NAME   FSTYPE    SIZE MOUNTPOINT  LABEL    MODEL
                                     sda             28.7G                      Ultra Fit       
1D8D-D42B                            |-sda1 vfat      240M /media/usb1 boot     
b5bfbb14-56d1-4eab-a831-0d17cd711a6a `-sda2 ext4     28.4G /           retropie 
                                     sdb            931.5G                      MQ01ABD100      
36e09f00-1197-377f-8f97-0901843273f0 `-sdb1 hfsplus 931.5G /media/usb0 ROMS     
pi@retropie:~ $ sudo blkid
/dev/sda1: SEC_TYPE="msdos" LABEL="boot" UUID="1D8D-D42B" TYPE="vfat" PARTUUID="6397c987-01"
/dev/sda2: LABEL="retropie" UUID="b5bfbb14-56d1-4eab-a831-0d17cd711a6a" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="6397c987-02"
/dev/sdb1: UUID="36e09f00-1197-377f-8f97-0901843273f0" LABEL="ROMS" TYPE="hfsplus"
pi@retropie:~ $

As you can see I install all the software to manage the HFS+ file system

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pi@retropie:~ $ sudo apt-get install hfsplus hfsutils hfsprogs
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
hfsplus is already the newest version (1.0.4-15).
hfsprogs is already the newest version (332.25-11+b1).
hfsutils is already the newest version (3.2.6-13).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 7 not upgraded.
pi@retropie:~ $

My fstab as you can see I rename the mount point for the disk because the error

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proc            /proc           proc    defaults          0       0
PARTUUID=6397c987-01  /boot           vfat    defaults          0       2
PARTUUID=6397c987-02  /               ext4    defaults,noatime  0       1
# a swapfile is not a swap partition, no line here
#   use  dphys-swapfile swap[on|off]  for that
#UUID=36e09f00-1197-377f-8f97-0901843273f0 /mnt/retrorom /home/pi/RetroPie      hfsplus    force,rw,nofail  0       0

If more information is needed please just ask
So because I'm not an experimented user in linux some one can please help me ? what I can do wrong ??
Thanks in advance !!
Best Regards

Posted: **Sat Apr 25, 2020 6:54 pm**

iMacosiris wrote: ↑

Sat Apr 25, 2020 3:41 am

My fstab as you can see I rename the mount point for the disk because the error

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proc            /proc           proc    defaults          0       0
PARTUUID=6397c987-01  /boot           vfat    defaults          0       2
PARTUUID=6397c987-02  /               ext4    defaults,noatime  0       1
# a swapfile is not a swap partition, no line here
#   use  dphys-swapfile swap[on|off]  for that
#UUID=36e09f00-1197-377f-8f97-0901843273f0 /mnt/retrorom /home/pi/RetroPie      hfsplus    force,rw,nofail  0       0

There's a very obvious error in that fstab: you can only have a single mountpoint. So either "/mnt/retrorom" or "/home/pi/RetroPie" but not both. Whichever you choose must exist and I suggest you include "auto" in your mount options.

Make the changes, uncomment the line, save your fstab then run

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sudo mount -a

If that works, job done. If not post the error/output you get.

FYI, I've no experience of hfs (plus or otherwise) so if it's specific to that filesystem I probably won't be able to help.

Posted: **Sat Apr 25, 2020 11:44 pm**

I'm not sure if HFS+ works read/write. It's a very different filesystem from the standard ones that Linux might see.

Posted: **Sun Apr 26, 2020 6:55 am**

scruss wrote: ↑
Sat Apr 25, 2020 11:44 pm
I'm not sure if HFS+ works read/write. It's a very different filesystem from the standard ones that Linux might see.

hfsprogs is in the repositories afaiaa:

https://packages.debian.org/buster/hfsprogs

Posted: **Sun Apr 26, 2020 1:14 pm**

These only provide very basic HFS+ file system repair tools, if the archive listing is to be believed. I don't think they do anything useful for the average user.

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