I think you have to be root to run hfsutils.

Try suing to root and then running it.

I believe this can be changed by modifying the permissions on the device
(in this case /dev/sd1d).

Hope this helps 

-c

Excerpts from internet.computing.netbsd.port-mac68k: 12-Nov-96  by
briggs@puma.macbsd.com 
> I'm trying to get hfsutils 1.0b(7?) to work on my system.
> I could compile the program all right, but when i tried to
> hmount a hfs partition, 
> 
> % hmount /dev/sd1d 
> 
> it quitted with an error message:
> 
> % cannot obtain lock on device /dev/sd1d (Operation not supported)
> 
> What does this mean?  Any help would be greatly appreciated!
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> chi on
> 
> p.s. I'm running NetBSD1.2 on a IIsi.

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