HFS Plus or HFS+ is a file system developed by Apple Inc. to replace their Hierarchical File System (HFS) as the primary file system used in Macintosh computers (or other systems running Mac OS).
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How to use tunefs
Introduction:
I'm planning a performance-oriented clean install of OS X (10.6) on my Mac and I've decided (among other things) to split the hard drive into multiple partitions.
Two of them will be ...
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Mount External HFS+ to Windows 8
I recently got a Win8 Laptop to replace my broken MacBook. I have an external enclosure for my macbook harddrive and would like to mount it as a file system on my windows laptop to move files. I ...
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Hot File Clustering with multiple partitions
I'm planning a performance-oriented clean install of OS X 10.6 and I was wondering if the hot file clustering feature will exists only on the boot partition or if there will be one for each partition ...
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Reliable HFS+ Journaled mount in any OS for ARMv6
I need an operating system for ARMv6 (Raspberry Pi) that can reliably mount HFS+ Journaled as read/write, with volume sizes up to 16TB.
I've not been able to find details on how stable HFS+ Journaled ...
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OSX Drive plugged into Win 7 via external
A friend of mine's Apple laptop stopped booting. HDD issues. So he popped out the HDD and gave it to me to see if I could recover any files.
I've done this with PCs multiple times. Even if an HDD is ...
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How do you create a named fork called rsrc on linux?
I have gotten an experimental raspberry pi kernel image with hfsplus support built and gentoo installed on the same filesystem. I read that accessing filename/rsrc can access the resource fork. I ...
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How to write to HFS+ through AFP/Netatalk without permission denied and cnid_metad error?
I spend the last 24 hours installing my debian server with all kind of packages.
As this server runs in Mac OS X (10.8) Environment, my initial goal was to use this server as a TimeCapsule ...
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Mac OS X Mountain Lion won't boot after installing Paragon HFS+ on Windows 8
I am running Windows 8 64Bit and Mac OS X Mountain Lion.
I installed Paragon HFS+ a few days ago, and now Mac OS won't boot. I get the gray screen with an apple logo and a progress bar along the ...
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How to improve HFS+/Mac OS X write performance with small files?
I'm the happy owner of a MacBook Air 2011 model with a nice, speedy SSD.
Usually, I'm really happy about the snappiness of this thing, especially because of this SSD.
Right now, I'm untarring a ...
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Files and folders stay grayed out in Finder
I have moved some files to an HFS+ journaled partition.
When I inspected them later, I have a few files or folder that:
have the creation and modification date: january 24th 1984, 09:00
are ...
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What Unix-like filesystem can easily and safely be mounted on both the Mac and Linux?
For a USB drive I'm looking for a file system (and/or fs creation options) that
can be mounted without third-party drivers on both a current OS X (>= 10.7.x) and a recent Linux kernel (say stock ...
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Do any filesystems support multiple forks / streams on directories?
Apple's HFS+ supports multiple forks such as the old data and resource forks. NTFS supports alternate data streams. I believe some *nix filesystems also have some support for multiple file forks or ...
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Corrupt HFS+ disk, partition image data corrupt?
I've got a 2TB disk from a friend that was an external drive attached to a Mac. The drive gave up, and reported no partitions available. I've taken an image of it with ddrescue (under linux 3.2), ...
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Best way to export the full content of a HFS+ partition
My friends MacBook Pro (2008) completely died today. We removed the hard drive, and I'm currently dumping it's whole content into a tar archive with the help of a parted magic live CD, so that he can ...
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Can I format a usb stick on windows xp, in HFS+ format, and make the usb stick mac os x bootable?
My Intel Mac OS X computer is corrupt and I feel, at this point, I need to perform a fresh install of the OS. It consistently and automatically logs out, right after I log in. I tried logging in as ...
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Copy time-machine backup to Linux?
I am trying to copy my time-machine backup from an external USB drive to a linux powered netatalk server. For this, I removed the SATA hard drive from its enclosure and connected it directly to the ...
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mac like disk utility for linux
Is there any disk utility like mac for Linux? from where I can create partition (HFS+) based and can copy a dmg image to my usb?
I am using Linux-mint 13, if such utility is available for any other ...
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OpenSuSE 11 iscsi target: HFS+ partition not seen by clients
I have an openSuSE machine as a file server, which has an Areca 1880i inside. It contains several partitions. There is a dm-0 and a dm-1 partition, for example. The partitions are formatted as EFI ...
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Are there any reasons why I wouldn't want to format a USB flash drive in HFS+ for Linux/Mac usage?
There have been other questions regarding the use of HFS+ formatted drives on Linux (e.g. this); however, I am specifically interested in knowing if this is a good idea for a particular purpose.
I ...
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Is it possible to use hfs+ for nfs exporting on linux?
I have an esata external driver which is of hfs+ format. I have already disabled the journaling function and managed to mount it with both read&write supports in my ubuntu system.
However, when I ...
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Use HFS+ or NTFS for Bootcamp-shared harddrive?
I put a second HDD into my MacBook Pro. Now I want to install Windows with Bootcamp and want both OSX and Windows to be able to read and write to that HDD.
What I am asking is whether you'd recommend ...
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Can I make a Mac hard drive recognizable on Ubuntu 11.10?
I want a Mac hard drive accessible from Ubuntu.
Is there any way to do that? For example using MacDrive I can read Mac hard drives on Windows. Is there a similar thing for Ubuntu?
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How is the performance of a virtual hard disk (in Virtual Box) formatted in HFS+?
i would like to 'test' a virtualized Mac in Virtual Box. I'm wondering: can i create a virtual hard disk (in VirtualBox) then format it in HFS+ (native for Mac) ?
Are there any known issues or ...
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Can't write HFS+ in OS X
I've an external HDD of 500GB and in HFS+ format. It works normally on my Mac running OS X 10.5.8. After I plugged it into a machine running Windows, I found a vacant partition of 128MB and formatted ...
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Can a hp SimpleSave 2TB External Hard Drive be recovered thats possibly been infected by a Mac computer?
A hp simplesave 2TB external HD owner, recently lent it out. When it came back, it couldn't be used with Windows anymore
They thought it may have become too full
It went to the 2nd person again with ...
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OSX extended attributes and NFS
I have multiple users working on a fileserver, mainly using Photoshop, InDesign and alikes. Samba (3.5.6) does not seem responsive enough (using 'socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_KEEPALIVE ...
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Unable to HotSwap HFS+ Formatted SATA Drives (on a Windows Machine)
I'm having problems getting HFS formatted drives to hotswap on my Windows 7 Machine
I have 2x Manhattan SATA drive racks installed in my computer
connected to the GSATA ports on my Gigabyte ...
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Non destructively enlarging HFS+ system partition
How can I enlarge my HFS+ system partition?
I've tried GParted and other methods (the dragging scrubber is not available, even booting with installation DVD to ensure that the system partition is not ...
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Creating exFAT partition (for PC & Mac) alongside bootable HFS+ partition?
I have an external hard drive with a bootable HFS+ partition on it. I have unallocated space on this drive that I want to create a new exFAT partition on, so that my entire family's computers, both ...
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OS X Disk Utility Fails to reformat
I want to completely reformat my internal hard-drive on an intel macbook. I'm having troubles. This is what happens in diskutil:
Erase the drive selecting Max OS extended Journaled (HFS+ Journaled). ...
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Attach disk drive in Linux
Is there a Linux equivalent of the Mac's
sudo hdiutil attach -imagekey -diskimage-class=CRawDiskImage -nomount
I have an imagine I want to attach as a disk drive, but I don't want to mount it. The ...
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How do I determine what file occupies a given sector in Mac OS X?
There are similar questions for Windows and Linux, but I need this on OS X. The filesystem is HFS+, journaled. I have a sector LBA, I could find where a partition starts with gpt (though it refuses to ...
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can't propogate permissions on HFS+ Lion, after copying data back from NTFS drive
I recently copied a bunch of data back from an NTFS drive I had used for backup, which had NTFS permissions of Everyone - Full Control. The copy was done using Linux Mint, with the 2 drives slaved ...
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Arch Arm: /folder does not support NFS export
I have a backup drive that is formatted hfs+ (for my mac laptops) That I want to have available on my home network so I don't have to plug in directly.
I have a pogoplug running arch linux (install is ...
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Erase MacDrive OS X partition without disrupting Windows partition?
I have a Windows 7 Ultimate (x64) installation. A while after I installed it, I reserved some space for OS X and created a partition for it. I use MacDrive to access the data on the OS X partition ...
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By-passing default permissions when mounting HFS+ volumes in linux
I have a dual booting macbook pro with Snow Leopard and Kubuntu 11.10, and want to read (don't care about write) my home Mac home directory when I'm running Kubuntu.
I can mount it without any ...
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How to mount HFS+ drive and ignore permissions
I installed Ubuntu and Windows on my MacBook and Ubuntu is my primary OS; however, all of my media stays on my OSX partition. I want to be able to access it (at least my OSX user's home folder) from ...
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Mac OS X not reporting directory sizes correctly?
In Finder, I've noticed that if I duplicate some .app files (in the Applications folder), Finder will show that the duplicate .app file is not the same size as the original. This file size ...
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Finding the file that is on a bad block on a HFS+ volume (debugfs for HFS+)
I have a drive in our iMac that has bad blocks, as booting from an Ubuntu 11.10 live CD and using ddrescue -f /dev/sda /dev/null finds them. I'd like to get the drive to remap them by writing to the ...
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How to transfer a Time Machine to an NTFS partition (or how to copy HFS+ hard links)
Do you know a way to copy HFS+ hard links to a folder on a HFS+ or NTFS drive?
Before you say it can't be done, I don't want actual backing up functionality of Time Machine, just the ability to ...
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How to manually edit mbr to recover lost partition?
I have accidentally deleted two hfs+ partitions.
I know start and end sectors of both of them. These partitions are 100% healthy. I can see them in Raise Data Recovery, but testdisk does not see them.
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How can I create an OSX readable image of an HFS+ disk mounted on Windows 7?
I'm using Paragon HFS+ to read the drive which is plugged into an external SATA adaptor. What I would like to be able to do now is create a disk mage.
Can this be done in Windows? I've tried ...
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how to access resource fork of hfs+ filesystem on linux
I have an HFS+ filesystem image recovered from a failing Mac harddrive and can loopback mount it on my Linux machine. How can I access the resource forks for the files in this filesystem from the ...
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Adding NTFS partition to disk in Windows makes HFS+ partition on same disk invisible in Mac OS X
I've got a USB hard drive that I've been using with my Mac for backups, formatted as one large HFS+ partition. I added a second NTFS partition for similar use with Windows, as follows:
Resize HFS+ ...
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How can I mount an HFS+ Drobo volume in Windows 7?
I have a 2nd Gen (FW800) Drobo connected to my computer, which boots both Lion, and Windows 7. The Drobo has HFS+ volumes as I use OSX predominantly.
I've installed Windows 7, the Unibrain FW driver, ...
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Read/Write HFS+ Partitions in Windows
Is there any way or software to read/write HFS+ partitions in Windows?
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Attributes of a file
I am trying to determine what all of the attributes are of a regular file (as opposed to a symbolic link, etc.) on Mac OS X with Mac OS Extended (Journaled) (HFS+). Here is my current list:
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Writing files to HFS+ drive from Linux
Is it possible to write/edit files on HFS+ drive from Linux? Yes I need to disable journaling but how can I disable journaling from Linux? I dont have access to mac.
Or any tool available for doing ...
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How do I connect to a remote HFS+ partition from Windows 7?
I've got a Time Capsule shared over the internet and I need to make connection to that file share.
It uses HFS+ and I can successfully connect from Mac computers.
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From Ubuntu to OS X - can't fix permissions
I am using Ubuntu to transfer data from an XFS-formatted drive to a HFS+ formatted drive over USB. Problem is whatever I do, these files get write-protected and I cannot change their permissions.
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