Questions tagged [hfs+]
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 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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Mounting Apple Core Storage partition on Ubuntu 17.04
I've a dual-boot OSx 10.11.4 El Capitan and Ubuntu 17.04 machine. Ubuntu can't mount or read the HFS+ partition, which was changed to Apple Core Storage in an upgrade from a previous version of the ...
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Mounting HFS+ (hfsplus) RAID 1 under Linux 3.13
I'm using a Linux Mint liveCD to rescue data off a Hackintosh which had its boot drive fail. I also have an HFS+ RAID 1 (created with Disk Utility in OS X) on separate drives in the system. ...
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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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How can I modify/open files without changing last modified/opened date on Mac OS (or Linux)?
My dad passed away last year, so I have boxes of dozens of old hard drives (all HFS+) with my all his files and pictures on them. I want to copy everything into one drive/RAID (also HFS+, possibly ...
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Rsync and accents in filename on macOS
When I use rysnc to backup my media hard drive that's plugged into my Ubuntu server using the command rsync -av --delete source destination it deletes and recopies all files that have accents in them, ...
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How to show uncompressed total physical size in bytes of an HFS-compressed file or directory?
Case in point: Apple's TextEdit at /Applications/TextEdit.app
If you calculate the physical size with echo "$(/usr/bin/du -k -d 0 /Applications/TextEdit.app | /usr/bin/awk '{print $1}') * 1024" | /...
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Change the way that Dolphin (KDE) mounts a (HFS+) filesystem
Once I click a pendrive formatted with HFS+ filesystem in Dolphin, it mounts it read-only. dmesg says:
hfsplus: write access to a journaled filesystem is not supported, use the force option at your ...
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Sharing HFS+ (USB-HDD) over NFS
I've hooked up an external HDD to my Raspberry Pi running Raspbian. It shows up under /dev/sda2 and /dev/sda3 (two partitions). I followed numerous tutorials, but none seem to have a fix for my ...
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OS X configurations partially lost when sharing home directory with Linux
I've installed Arch Linux on my Macbook Pro with OS X 10.8.5. I created an HFS+ volume(journalling disabled) for home directories so that my personal data can be shared between the two OSes. Sometimes,...
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How to use tunefs
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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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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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Can't propagate 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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Back up old time machine backup without mac
A long while ago, I owned a macbook for several years, and backed it up on to an external hd with time machine. I no longer have a functioning mac, but I do have the original drive, and the hd. I've ...
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How to Repair MAC OS disk from Windows 10?
In boot-camp environment my MAC OS boot disk has been spoiled by Paragon HFS+ for windows-10. MAC used to be so stable. Unfortunate that I ended up installing Paragon.
Many people have been ...
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can't access specific files in bindfs mount
I'm using Arch Linux on a Mac and therefore use hfsprogs to access my hfs+-partitions. Since the permissions on the files on my Mac partitions are set to my Mac user, I can't read or write those ...
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Resize HFS+ Partition on Windows
Is there any way that I can resize a HFS+ partition on Windows 8?
I tried Paragon Partition Manager, but it actually makes the partition Read-Only after re-sizing it.
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Use dd to copy an HFS+ volume in linux
I have a friend's HFS+ external drive from her Macbook. We created a new similarly-sized partition on a different external drive, also using the Macbook. From everything I understand about dd, it is ...
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If I move an encrypted file from NTFS to HFS will the encryption be removed?
Trying to move encrypted files from one File System to another, assume equal credentials. I understand that since FS such as FAT do not support encryption the encryption would be dropped upon file ...
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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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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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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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Recovery data from a double (accidentally) formatted HDD HFS+
Could be possible recovery original HDD data from a double formatted HDD?
I have erroneous repeated the formatting on a working disk twice, could be possible recovery original one table allocation ...
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Is it possible to restore data from a Harddrive after it had been formatted from HFS+ to NTFS and windows has been installed?
Sorry for the long title, but I got a serious problem that I couldnt fix even after hours of search and recovery through recovery software.
At this point I dont even know if its even possible to ...
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Repairing SSD , broken GPT
I am not a tech-savvy person , but i am also not a tech-blind-person , just your average noob user .
I have this Crucial M4 SSD 128GB i got myself from workplace storage . The admins said i can have ...
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Write HFS+ formatted drive image to smaller capacity drive on Linux
I imaged a potentially defective 1TB hard disk drive containing about 270GB worth of actual data, using ddrescue, on a Lubuntu live system. The recovery is 99.9% complete, there's only a 52KB area ...
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GPT disk unaccessible lost HFS+ partitions
MBP early 2011 running OSX 10.11.6
3TB Seagate external HDD
My Seagate had all (not sure how many) HFS+ partitions working ok until one day it stopped mounting.
currently listed as /dev/disk3 and ...
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get back directories deleted on hfs+ filesystem
Anyone knows if it is easy "get back" a directory in hfsplus file system, mounted to Linux and deleted by rm?
Long story short, I connected my iPad to Ubuntu (14.04) and wanted to import my pictures.
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El-Capitan has set my external HDD, which is formatted HFS+ to read only file system
I have a 1TB Lacie drive on a Firewire 800 interfaced to my iMac, running El-Capitan. The drive is used for data only and is where the /users/myname path points. As it is getting short on space, I ...
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Merge .AppleDouble forks with original files
I used to place my iTunes’s media folder on a NAS accessed through AFP and, as you may know, the OS also placed several .AppleDouble files on it.
Now, my NAS isn’t working as expected and the only ...
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Failed Yosemite TimeMachine "Use Drive (with Encryption)" renders drive unmountable on reboot
I turned on TimeMachine and told it to use my Drobo volume for backups, and checked the box for encryption. It thought about it for a few minutes and then bailed with an error stating that it couldn'...
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How can I write to Journaled HFS+ from NTFS?
I have an external (USB) drive that I’m fairly sure is NTFS formatted. I would like to copy the files off of it, reformat it for Mac, and then put the files back on it. I am aware that you can’t ...
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Converting a MBR partition table to a GPT on a HFS+ hard drive
I have a HFS+ 2TB drive that I used to use with my Mac. I wanted to read its contents from Linux (Ubuntu server 14.04) too, so I plugged the drive and played around with gdisk, fdisk, parted and so on....
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How to read apple HDD on linux without root privileges?
My question is very simple. I just want to read my Apple HDD on my linux computer without root privileges.
My goal is only to read and copy some file from my home directory (in Documents). Currently ...
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Recover Linux ext4 partition formatted(erased) to hfs+
I have a Linux partition with ext4 and I accidentally formatted it with Mac OS X Disk Utility to HFS+ (Mac OS X Extended Journaled).
I tried to recover it with http://www.r-studio.com/ on Windows but ...
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testdisk to recover formatted external
I accidentally reformatted a 1TB external hard drive from FAT32 to HFS+ Journaled (Mac OSX Extended Journaled). I've been looking at data recovery programs such as VirtualLab's Data Recovery and ...
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Making HFS+ volume available to Windows 8
I need help determining the best way to make several GB of files on an OS X HFS+ volume available to a Windows 8 machine. The basics of the situation are as follows:
We have a wheezing G4 Mac running ...
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Trying to mount a partition to recover files
One of the partitions on an external drive just went partway south on me. It shows up grayed out (unmounted) in Disk Utility as "disk3s5" but DU won't mount it. I ran the following:
localhost:~ tod$ ...
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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 EX58-UD3R....
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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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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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cancel last chmod?
Today is a great day for me - anyone can suggest other restore method than from tape with regard to my last glorious command
sudo chmod -R o=rw /
Btw I am on HFS+
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Is iOS 11 Beta IPSW package already in APFS? How to open/extract it on Windows?
I want to extract the iOS 11 Beta IPSW to extract it's ringtones and maybe even wallpapers. But I don't have a Mac to open it.
I already opened the IPSW, but the DMGs inside it is my problem. I've ...
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