Set permissions to HFS+ external hard drive

[DrHu]

http://viaforensics.com/computer-forens ... linux.html
http://bd-things.net/how-to-have-both-m ... ory-files/
http://www.xbmc.org/forum/archive/index ... 51626.html

And you have the utilities you need..
--in Terminal, check

• apt search hfs
  p hfsplus - Tools to access HFS+ formatted volumes
  p hfsprogs - mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file system
  p hfsutils - Tools for reading and writing Macintosh vo

[DrHu]

I formated the external hard drive to Mac OS X extended (Non-Journaled) and once mounted on the Linux Mint system it can only read and not write.

Yours was an unjornel'd hfs disk, as far as I understood what you listed..
--so why you would use that specific command, I don't understand..

HFS..
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=239370
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Autom ... Partitions

• Apple Partition
  accessable by everyone
  user,auto,file_umask=0111,dir_umask=0000
  Accessible by a subset of users
  user,auto,file_umask=0177,dir_umask=0077,uid=1000
  you will have to investigate umask, uid options.. in Mint..

http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/understan ... usage.html
In terminal check

• umask
  0022

--My logged in user name umask