How to use Western Digital drive on Manjaro 20

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I have Manjaro 20 installed and I would like to use a Western Digital drive that I have been using several years ago with MacBook Pro computer. There is no way to mount this drive despite the fact that it recognizes FSTAB -L
The format is Mac OS Extended and other partition is in MS Dos.
It is probably blocked for another option and not that I should do to be able to use it with my computer with Manjaro.
What should I do?
Thanks
Josef.

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Hello,

a word of caution, I never owned or used a Mac before, thus my knowledge is very limited to theory.

To clarify, if your partition is indeed MacOS HFS+ journaled, there is a tool in AUR repository, which can access this partition type:

pkgname=hfsprogs
pkgver=540.1.linux3
pkgrel=4
pkgdesc="User space utils for create and check Apple HFS/HFS+ filesystem"
arch=('x86_64')
depends=('openssl')
makedepends=('libbsd')

If you use the “Add/Remove Programs” you can search for it “hfsprogs” and build it.
Note: as with all pkg building, take the time to read the git page and build instructions/notes.

Hope this helps

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I install HFSprogs from ADD / Remove Programs then connect the Drive but nothing happens. It seems to me that this WD drive is blocked and only opens on the Mac.
Thanks for your help anyway
Josef.

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I believe it is not a plug’n’play scenario.
You may need to manually mount the drive to use it.

On a quick google search I found a couple of commands to use with HFSprogs

The link provides some more troubleshooting steps, into understanding the state of your drive, as well as how to manually mount it.
If you can mount it manually, we can then proceed to make it automatically.

Let me know if this is helpful.

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First, thanks for your help.
At the moment I have a problem to find where the WD drive is connected.
I get the following message with lsusb:
[josefcarel@josefcarel-vmwarevirtualplatform ~]$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 009: ID 1058:1112 Western Digital Technologies, Inc. My Book Studio (WDBAAJ), My Book Studio LX (WDBACH)

And after I gert the following message for fdisk -l
Disco /dev/sda: 50 GiB, 53687091200 bytes, 104857600 sectores
Modelo de disco: VMware Virtual S
Unidades: sectores de 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Tamaño de sector (lógico/físico): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Tamaño de E/S (mínimo/óptimo): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Tipo de etiqueta de disco: dos
Identificador del disco: 0x4b8a7ef1

Disposit. Inicio Comienzo Final Sectores Tamaño Id Tipo
/dev/sda1 * 2048 104856254 104854207 50G 83 Linux

Disco /dev/loop0: 162.87 MiB, 170778624 bytes, 333552 sectores
Unidades: sectores de 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Tamaño de sector (lógico/físico): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Tamaño de E/S (mínimo/óptimo): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disco /dev/loop1: 229.54 MiB, 240689152 bytes, 470096 sectores
Unidades: sectores de 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Tamaño de sector (lógico/físico): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Tamaño de E/S (mínimo/óptimo): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disco /dev/loop2: 32.28 MiB, 33845248 bytes, 66104 sectores
Unidades: sectores de 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Tamaño de sector (lógico/físico): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Tamaño de E/S (mínimo/óptimo): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disco /dev/loop3: 96.31 MiB, 100986880 bytes, 197240 sectores
Unidades: sectores de 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Tamaño de sector (lógico/físico): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Tamaño de E/S (mínimo/óptimo): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disco /dev/loop4: 64.77 MiB, 67915776 bytes, 132648 sectores
Unidades: sectores de 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Tamaño de sector (lógico/físico): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Tamaño de E/S (mínimo/óptimo): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disco /dev/loop5: 99.21 MiB, 104026112 bytes, 203176 sectores
Unidades: sectores de 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Tamaño de sector (lógico/físico): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Tamaño de E/S (mínimo/óptimo): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disco /dev/loop6: 55.46 MiB, 58159104 bytes, 113592 sectores
Unidades: sectores de 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Tamaño de sector (lógico/físico): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Tamaño de E/S (mínimo/óptimo): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disco /dev/loop7: 57.34 MiB, 60129280 bytes, 117440 sectores
Unidades: sectores de 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Tamaño de sector (lógico/físico): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Tamaño de E/S (mínimo/óptimo): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

So I dont know how to implement the command
to mount the drive with HFSprong as adviced.
Whats my error?

Im very sorry for the problems Im caused
Thanks again
Josef