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pazoo
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2010-12-21, 21:24
Hi all
I just installed XBMC on a 500GB HDD.
I made a partition of 2GB for XBMC and the 2nd partition for
videos (HFS+)
When I start XBMC not mount the HFS partition?
How can I raise?
Thank you all
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What OS are you running XBMC on?
Mac, Linux, Windows.
If it's the first, the OS handles the mounting.
If it's the second or 3rd, why are you using HFS+.
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For the record Linux only works with non-Journaled HFS+ systems.
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pazoo
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sudo mkdir /media/HDDVIDEO
sudo mount sda5 /media/HDDVIDEO - error
sudo /dev/sdax /media/HDDVIDEO hfsplus defaults 0 0 - command no good
im noob
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I can't tell you how your volume/hdd is called on your system - that's something you have to figure out yourself.
But sda1, sda2, sda3 and so on are a good guess, since sda represents the first hdd of your system (most times following the boot order of your BIOS) and that normally is your root volume (the volume where Dharma is installed to).
My guess: sda1 could be your root partition, sda2 could be swap and sda3 could be the hfs partition. You'll have to try that out by mounting the volumes...
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No, please read my previous post.
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1) If you are using Linux, why are you using HFS+?
2) HFS+ should automount. It's just another file system. If the OS knows what to do with it, HAL should take care of it.
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I'm using HFS+ only for my external USB HDD to be able to read the files on my Mac.
However your second statement isn't true in all cases. I have a media partition on the internal HDD too that's formated in ext2 and it won't get automounted by XBMC. XBMC will automount my external HDD (with HFS+) and thumb drives with FAT, but the easiest to read ext2 on the same physical drive as the system won't be recognized until I add it to fstab. I don't think HFS+ would do any better in this case.
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Some useful information for anyone trying to use HFS+ in Linux:
I had a problem where my hfs+ drive was being mounted as read-only even though journaling was turned off and it was setup to mount as read/write. I figured out that the cause was the disk had been uncleanly unmounted and needed to be checked for errors before it could be mounted as writable again. If the disk is uncleanly unmounted it will mount as read-only.
To check the disk for errors:
$df -h // To find the device name for your drive
$fsck.hfsplus -r /dev/sdc1 // Replace sdc1 with your device and partition number
Unmount the disk and remount it to try to make it writable.
You can do $fsck.hfsplus -u to find more options for repairing the disk.