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Please repleace /dev/sdXY to your device like /dev/sda1, /dev/sdb3.

How to read and write `HFS+ journaled` external HDD in Ubuntu without access to macOS/OS X?

First, make sure that you have hfsprogs installed. Example installation command:

sudo apt-get install hfsprogs

Next, mount or remount the HFS+ drive; commands need to be as follows:

sudo mount -t hfsplus -o force,rw /dev/sdXY /media/mntpoint

or:

sudo mount -t hfsplus -o remount,force,rw /mount/point

Finally, if the drive was improperly unmounted or has otherwise become partially corrupted, run fsck.hfsplus ... as such:

sudo fsck.hfsplus -f /dev/sdXY

Make sure you have exfatprogs installed.

sudo apt-get install exfatprogs

sudo apt-get install fuse

When the installation completes, install ntfs-3g by running:

sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g

Now mount:

sudo mkdir /mnt/myntfs
sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdXY /mnt/myntfs/