mkfs.hfsplus does not create UUID

[Lars Noodén]

Binary package hint: hfsprogs

Formatting a partition as HFSPLUS does not provide the partition with a UUID. A work around is to boot to OS X and use the disk utility to format the partition. The expected behavior is that mkfs assigns a UUID to the new partition.

[Lars Noodén (larsnooden)]

This is on natty, alpha 3

$ lsb_release -r
Release: 11.04

[Lars Noodén (larsnooden)]

$ apt-cache policy hfsprogs
hfsprogs:
  Installed: 332.25-9
  Candidate: 332.25-9
  Version table:
 *** 332.25-9 0
        500 http://fi.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Rogério Theodoro de Brito (rbrito)]

Dear Lars,

Thanks for reporting this bug.

On Mar 17 2011, Lars Noodén wrote:
> Formatting a partition as HFSPLUS does not provide the partition with a
> UUID. A work around is to boot to OS X and use the disk utility to
> format the partition. The expected behavior is that mkfs assigns a UUID
> to the new partition.

I see.

Since the version that I am packaging is somewhat old, I think that some
upgrade may be able to fix this *if* the generation of the UUID is
incorporated in Apple's diskdev_cmds package (which I rename to create
hfsprogs for Linux).

Failing that, I will have to study how Apple implements the UUID thing and
provide a wrapper for that.

I do hope that the 1st option actually provides us with a fix without
something flaky.

Thanks as usual for the feedback,

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[Matthew Garrett (mjg59)]

It's a bug in the Linux support patch. It byteswaps a 32-bit value as it it's a 64-bit one and so ends up with zeros. This fixes the Fedora version, I'd guess it should be applicable to the Debian one.

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[Lars Noodén (larsnooden)]

Still present in Precise Pangolin

$ apt-cache policy hfsprogs
hfsprogs:
  Installed: 332.25-9build1
  Candidate: 332.25-9build1
  Version table:
 *** 332.25-9build1 0
        500 http://fi.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Rogério Theodoro de Brito (rbrito)]

Hi, Matthew.

On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 08:58, Matthew Garrett <email address hidden> wrote:
> It's a bug in the Linux support patch. It byteswaps a 32-bit value as it
> it's a 64-bit one and so ends up with zeros. This fixes the Fedora
> version, I'd guess it should be applicable to the Debian one.

Thank you very much for sending this patch. I will apply it in my
Debian tree and I hope that it will be integrated into Ubuntu. My
tree, BTW, is available at two places:

    https://github.com/rbrito/hfsprogs
    http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/hfsprogs.git

If you happen to have patches in Fedora, I would love to get them, to
ease the pain of maintaining this Frankenstein thing.

Thanks,

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[Rogério Theodoro de Brito (rbrito)]

Just for the record, Matthew's patch is already in Debian's unstable.

BTW, Matthew, what if we joined forces to maintain the package, forward porting the crufty things that I have written so far and trying to get a newer version from apple packaged?

You probably know way more than me about the Linux kernel, filesystems etc.

Regards,

Rogério Brito.

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz (glaubitz)]

hfsprogs has been updated to 540.1.linux3-1 and is now available in the development version of Ubuntu.

Please see if that fixes your problem.