Allows high-speed mobile hard drive for Mac OS X to be read and written in Linux.

Allows high-speed mobile hard drive for Mac OS X to be read and written in Linux.

Both MacBook Pro and iMac have lightning interfaces and USB 3.0 interfaces. They work with dedicated high-speed mobile hard drives formatted using Mac OS X to read and write data very quickly. Can such hard disks be read and written in Linux? In fact, Mac OS X uses its own HFS + file system format. After formatting a mobile hard disk, Linux can only read and write by default. The reason is that HFS + enables the logging function by default, which can ensure data verification to the maximum extent and recover data when a read/write exception occurs. However, the HFS + logging function is not supported by the Linux kernel, so the simplest way is to disable the logging function of the mobile hard disk in HFS + file system format. The method is simple. In the command line terminal of Mac OS X, enter:

Diskutil disableJournal

You can disable the HFS + format mobile hard disk logging function, so that Mac OS X and Linux can read and write the mobile hard disk normally. The Linux kernel version must be later than 3.x.

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