r0nnie
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Joined: Fri Aug 03, 2012 1:53 am

Help with read only external hdd

Sun Oct 07, 2012 1:30 pm

hello i have an hfs+ formatted external hdd (formatted in windows via mac drive) but i need to get it mounted as read/write but its only mounting as read only

any ideas ? thanks

im auto mounting the drive from label in /ect/fstab

LABEL=Untitled /mnt/xbmc1/ hfsplus rw 0 1

elatllat
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Re: Help with read only external hdd

Sun Oct 07, 2012 3:11 pm

SBC with 32GB RAM: https://hardkernel.com

FAQ : https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com

Unanswered: https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/search.php?search_id=unanswered

r0nnie
Posts: 49
Joined: Fri Aug 03, 2012 1:53 am

Re: Help with read only external hdd

Sun Oct 07, 2012 4:09 pm

not working for me still

mount: warning: /mnt/xbmc1/ seems to be mounted read-only.

Altin
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Joined: Fri Aug 24, 2012 10:52 pm

Re: Help with read only external hdd

Sun Oct 07, 2012 9:29 pm

I had similar problems when setting up my RPi & it was related to how my /etc/fstab file was set up (http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewt ... 88#p168988). Simonthepiman.com recently updated the instructions for setting up a file server for Wheezy on his site, so maybe that could help too.

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