[PROBLEM] XBian + HFS = read only

[Nicolasrata]

Hi all,
I bought a Pi 2 to do a mediacenter with Kodi and Transmission.
I tried OpenElec, OSMC, XBian, Raspbian and Xbian again.
I have no problem with Kodi.
My problem is with Transmission. I can seed those which are on my hard drive but I can't start new torrent cause I have an error, FS is read only.
I saw there is some problem with HFS file system, but my two 2Tb hard drive are in HFS+ and i can't and don't want to format them.

I tried to mount my drive with rw access but I have an error saying the fs seems to be read only.

So my question is what should I do to have my Pi running Kodi and Transmission with HFS+ hard drive plugged in.

Thanks

[Peiote]

By now, you must have tried LibreELEC, dietpi, rasplex, banana pi, and other. Just in case you come back to xBian, test using ext4 file system or other torrent client like deluge.

[Nachteule]

This has nothing to do with torrent client. If FS is read-only, it is read-only and nobody can write to it.

Do not have experience with HFS+, never used this FS

[IriDium]

I also have no experience with HFS+ but...

I assume you have installed HFS support?

If not

Terminal

sudo apt-get install hfsplus hfsutils hfsprogs

I would check the disks with

Terminal

sudo fsck.hfsplus /dev/<drive ID>

I also believe that you need to turn off journalling for R/W.

Terminal

sudo diskutil disableJournal <volume name>

Then you should be able to mount it:

Terminal

sudo mount /dev/<drive ID> /<mount point> -t hpsplus defaults,rw 0 0

I don't have HFS+ so cannot test any of these commands!!

[Peiote]

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