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I'm trying to mount at boot a HFS+ core partition in Linux Ubuntu. I followed some other questions here and I came up with this mount command, which seems to properly work, providing read/write access to the partition:

sudo mount -t hfsplus -o force,rw,sizelimit=$((935960064*512)) /dev/sda2 mount

Now I would like it to be mounted at boot as usual, so I'm trying to add the proper line to /etc/fstab. This is what I wrote:

UUID=0e1ad81d-63b6-35cd-93f0-ea8cfbadaefe       /mnt/480GB1     hfsplus force,rw,sizelimit=479582773248 0       0

where:

sudo blkid /dev/sda2
/dev/sda2: UUID="0e1ad81d-63b6-35cd-93f0-ea8cfbadaefe" TYPE="hfsplus" PARTLABEL="480GB1" PARTUUID="276b2d0a-193a-4325-a1aa-09dd84516b4e"

but this is the answer:

sudo mount -a
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop0,
       missing codepage or helper program, or other error

       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail or so.

dmesg returns:

[10292.068918] hfsplus: invalid secondary volume header
[10292.068922] hfsplus: unable to find HFS+ superblock

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

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  • The mount error message looks suspicious: "bad superblock on /dev/loop0". Are you sure the errors are related to the line you added to /etc/fstab?
    – Johan Myréen
    Sep 30 '17 at 14:29
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Your sizelimit is not identical. Could this be the cause?

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  • Woh! Good catch! Last time I wrote the line I wrote it properly but I copy-pasted a wrong similar number. It works properly now. Don't know why someone downvoted you.
    – Luca Carlon
    Sep 30 '17 at 16:51
  • Well, because there are a lot of people on SE who believe they are "right" and the others should piss off.
    – JPT
    Sep 30 '17 at 17:49

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