hfs partition not cleanly unmounted

[Geoff Ghose]

Binary package hint: hfsplus

Upon normal shutdown, the hfs partition requires fsck when rebooted. I do not have journaling enabled.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: hfsplus 1.0.4-12build3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-20.29-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-20-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Sep 8 23:00:21 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Netbook 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429.4)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: hfsplus

[dazza5000 (darran-kelinske)]

Dear Geoff,

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:

* Is this reproducible?
* If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug?

This will help us to find and resolve the problem.

Darran

[Geoff Ghose (gmghose)]

Yes, happens everytime.

Simply shut down and reboot. The partition is unreadable without a fsck. In my case, I have a multi-boot machine, and I usually let OS X take care of the fsck.

So I can reboot OS X without any problem, but if I boot Linux it leaves the disk in a bad state.

[Romuald (romu70)]

Hi guys,
I'm facing a similar issue but I don't do the same workaround. I own a USB HDD formated with HFS+. My use case is typically to copy some files on the disks which is normally plug in my tv set top box.

The test case:
- mount the HDD on a mac
- copy some files -> it works
- unmount it
- mount it in Ubuntu
- use sudo to copy some files -> it works
- unmount it
- mount it again in Ubuntu
- use sudo to copy some files -> KO, the partition is still read only

Workaround: mount/unmount it again on a mac and then back to Ubuntu and it works.