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I'm not sure of a way to disable Journaling on a Mac Drive from within Linux Unfortunately. The only way around this is to disable Journaling on the Mac Drive you're trying to write to in Linux and this must be done within Mac OS via Terminal/Terminal Commands.

If the Mac Filesystem you are mounting in Linux is 'Mac Journaled Filesystem' then it will only mount in Linux in 'Read Only' mode. I suspect that, whatever this problem is, both these oddities are related. Remember - Mac is Unix with a lot of Big-Brother crap on top of it. Nothing I, my root or my root terminal - not my Mint friend's - would let us write to the external mac USB hard drive or DOS-formatted memory USB dongle could change this, and between us we must have at least two brain cells. In BOTH cases, the system insisted the USB drive was read-only. And HE could read files and open directories, and create directories, but not write to or copy files! WAIT - THERE'S MORE: two days later, I passed a DOS-formatted USB memory dongle with some files on it to a guy sitting next to me on a Linux Mint (Ubuntu-derived) laptop.

what the heck is user 99 in a standard install? And despite my deleting the dummmy user's home directory, that user name still appears at time running processes.

Oddly, the new user never showed up in System>Administration>Users and Groups. No luck - I could read files and open directories, and create directories, but not write to or copy files. Here's a quirk: Last week, I ran into a corollary issue: while I have been able to read files from Mac external USB HDs, I found recently that I was unable to WRITE to any of the ones I tried! The user number was 99, and since I know Mac OSX is in fact a Unix variant I tried creating a user with user number 99.

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