How do I access a drive formatted with hfsplus? Says its not configured in kernel

When mounting through dolphin I get this error:

An error occurred while accessing '500GB SSD', the system responded: The requested operation has failed: Error mounting /dev/sdd2 at /run/media/sophie/500GB SSD: Filesystem type hfsplus not configured in kernel.

How do I configure it? when searching for packages I only find ones for hfs but not hfsplus.

@sophimoo See SDB:FilesystemBlacklisting - openSUSE Wiki and how to enable the hfsplus module either temporarily (my suggestion) or permanently at your own risk and support…

@sophimoo . Why??

Is it some old Apple drive you need to access?

Personally, I would get the data off that device and format with a better filesystem. Or maybe replace the hardware with something a bit more modern.

From the Wiki

“HFS Plus was not designed for Unix-like systems, so features such as file system permissions and hard links had to be retrofitted when Apple moved to Mac OS X.”.

…and for that you need to mount the device…

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That’s the rumor :slight_smile: And?
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Okay, I don’t have an answer myself, since I have no experience with it … however I did come across this post over in another forum.

A couple of folks seem to have had success with detailed answers - so, for @sophimoo , you should read thru the thread for a possible solution!

This Ubuntu thread won’t help unless the TO is following the openSUSE SDB (pointed out by Malcolm) as hfsplus is a blacklisted filesystem on openSUSE.

Coooooo-rrect !

So, what to do?

“un-blacklist” the filesystem as in the openSUSE SDB, then try the suggestions. Easy-peasy :slight_smile:

@sophimoo … pretty sure it’ll all work, just read both references very carefully :+1:

I’m using a external ssd for extra storage on my mac and I formatted it as mac os extended journaled, at some point I’ll switch it to APFS, but for now im stuck with hfsplus

yep just ran da modprobe command and unblacklisted it temporarily and it worked immediately

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