Removable media hfs+ formatted

[Darryl Clarke]

On 4/16/05, Olivier Vogel <oliviervogel at freesurf.ch> wrote:
> I observe a problem with removable media (usb stick and cdrom) when they
> are hfs+ formatted. They don't automount and must be manually mounted
> with
> 
> sudo mount -t hfsplus /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom
> 
> Of course, I have installed hfsplus.
> 
> Is it possible to get them mounted automagically as when they are vfat
> formatted?
> 
> Thank you for your help
> 

Hi,

Make sure the hfsplus module is loaded on boot time.  If it's not then
gnome-volume-manager (and mount) won't be able to autodetect that
filesystem.  The module gets loaded when you specify via the command
line mount -t hfsplus.

You can just add hfsplus to the list in the file /etc/modules

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