HFS partition on Ubuntu
You can enable writing to HFS+ in Linux even if you didn’t disable journaling. In addition to hfsplus which you already have, you need to have hfsprogs installed :
sudo apt-get install hfsprogs
Then, use the -o force option :
sudo mount -o force /dev/sdX /your/mount/point
If the drive has been mounted automatically (as it should be on a desktop system like Ubuntu), you can enable write with :
sudo mount -o remount,rw,force /mount/point
or
sudo mount -o remount,rw,force /dev/sdx
/mount/point would usually be /media/Your_drive_label /dev/sdx is your HFS+ device
