I tried to mount HFS+ partition in Linux today, but I had problem with
hfsplus: unable to find HFS+ superblock
I've found later that this partition is in fact Core Storage container for the logical volume, what could mean I should at least know corrected offset of the real logical volume on this partition.
I tried to follow advices seen in plenty of places to revert the volume using diskutil cs revert UUID, however my problem is that I see:
Logical Volume C4FE8...
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[...]
Revertible: No
[...]
Logical Volume Family above this has all encryption related fields set to No/None. However I cannot find a way how to have this volume revertible.
Because it's only 300 GB of data on 1TB drive, I've managed to shrink it. The idea I have is to create empty partition of the same size as the volume and the copy it using dd. Then I would have pure HFS+ partition probably mountable under Linux. However gpt in recovery doesn't allow me to add next partition to disk0 saying "resource is busy". Graphical utility seem to have some bug and I cannot confirm new partition (in recovery mode as I don't know the password to superuser account).
Now, does anyone manage to mount Core Storage volume at least read-only under Linux?
Or maybe someone found the way how to make this Core Storage volume revertible?
Best Answer
I don't know if it's possible to remove CoreStorage entirely once a disk's been converted, but it is possible to mount the HFS volumes inside (provided they are not encrypted - if so, you'll also need to use libfvde).