Mga 7.1 mkfs.hfsplus does not create UUID

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Mga 7.1 mkfs.hfsplus does not create UUID

Postby marct » Mar 8th, '20, 22:19

Hi All,

trying to create a usb drive with Mageia 7 for a MacBook Pro 7.1 (mid 2010). To be able to start from the Apple boot manager (without rEfind) the efi partition needs to be HFS formatted (see https://askubuntu.com/questions/563401/ ... out-refind) and I need to make an fstab entry with the UUID of this efi partition. Problem: mkfs.hfsplus does not create a UUID when formatting the partition for HFS+. This looks like a bug from the past, but I thought it was already solved.

I have hfsplus-tools version 332.14 release 11.mga7 x86_64 installed

Kind regards

MarcT
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Re: Mga 7.1 mkfs.hfsplus does not create UUID

Postby doktor5000 » Mar 8th, '20, 22:33

Well, those tools are pretty much outdated and not really maintained, as probably nobody uses them frequently.
There are bugreports for this including patches, like https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... bug/737002
But I don't see a bugreport in our bugzilla and so that patch probably never got included.

Although you might be able to manually set a UUID using gdisk: https://unix.stackexchange.com/question ... artedmagic
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Re: Mga 7.1 mkfs.hfsplus does not create UUID

Postby marct » Mar 9th, '20, 22:50

Thanks for your help, doktor5000.

I managed to get this done by formatting in OS X using diskutil in command line.
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Re: Mga 7.1 mkfs.hfsplus does not create UUID

Postby doktor5000 » Mar 10th, '20, 18:08

Please mark the thread accordingly as DONE, by editing the subject of the first post, thanks in advance.
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