format a flash drive to Mac OS Extended (Journaled)

Question

Is it even possible to do that on Ubuntu? I need to format it to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) to install OSX and I don't have a Mac available :/ Could is even install the image with ubuntu?

Thanks in advance.

Solution

gParted with hfsprogs can do this.

But it might have limitations since it is not native to Linux.

The HFS+ file system used by Apple Computer for their Mac OS is supported by the Linux kernel. Apple provides mkfs and fsck for HFS+ with the Unix core of their operating system, Darwin.

This package is a port of Apple's tools for HFS+ filesystems.

For users, HFS+ seems to be a good compromise to carry files between MacOS X and Linux Machines, as HFS+ doesn't suffer the problems of FAT32 like:

• huge space waste (in slack space as devices grow faster);
• bility to create files that are more than 4GB in size (especially good for those working with multimedia and that need to carry large ISO files);
• ability to use case preserving (and even sensitivity!);
• ability to use uid's and gid's on the filesystem. Users in general can enjoy such benefits since it is expected to have more HFS+ filesystems in use, as Apple has announced Macintoshes for ix86-64, besides the filesystem being already supported by PowerPC system since the beginning.

Comments

[user125784]

I'll give it a try, thanks. It could be helpful if i could "burn" the image to the flash drive as well. Could it be done?