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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

Well, those tools are pretty much outdated and not really maintained, as probably nobody uses them frequently.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

Thanks for your help, doktor5000.

I managed to get this done by formatting in OS X using diskutil in command line.

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