Questions tagged [hfs]
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How do I mount a HFS+ dd image in OS X?
I had an HFS+ formatted drive that was going bad and wouldn't mount at all on OS X. I created an image using ddrescue on linux, and was able to save most of it.
I can mount the drive and see the data ...
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Virtualbox for Mac OS X - using an external USB drive, which filesystem is ideal?
Assuming that I am NOT going to add NTFS drivers that allow read+write of NTFS partitions, I was wondering if the choice of filesystem when I partition an external USB drive matters. The choices ...
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Why do disk images hosted on a read-only HFS+ partition behave differently?
I have come across the following phenomenon and would like to know how leaky Windows' file system abstraction is or if there's something else involved.
I partitioned the hard disk of my MacBook Pro ...
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unable to format external drive to HFS+ for Mac
I have an external hard drive (1 TB Western Digital) that is currently formatted as FAT32 and I want to reformat it to a single partition of HFS+ for my Mac. I realize that I can read FAT32 from my ...
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Corrupted files, hard drive test?
I'm currently on a macbook with a 1TB external hard drive connected trough a USB hub wich is connected on my macbook. The problem is, my disk, wich is partitioned in 2 (one HFS+ and one NTFS) keeps ...
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How to read and write Mac drives on Windows
I have some external hard drives that are Mac OS Extended (Journaled) formatted. What software can you recommend for working with those drives when under Windows? Do you have any experience with this?
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What filesystem for shared (read/write) PC/Mac external drive? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Cross-platform file system
Is there a recommended filesystem to use when sharing an external drive between the Mac and PC? I understand there are options for Macs to read/...
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How can I find out what's on a certain block in an HFS+ formatted drive?
I've a hard disk that has damaged blocks. I'm now copying it using ddrescue to an external drive.
I've a file with the list of the damaged blocks, how can I find out which files are located in the ...
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How can I mount a USB drive that's been formatted on a Mac?
Is it possible, using Ubuntu 9.04, to mount a USB HDD that's been formatted on a Mac (HFS+?)
How about under windows?
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How does one change the UUID of a Volume on Mac OS X 10.6?
Does anyone know how to change the UUID of a Volume? The background for this question is that I have a duplicate UUID issue:
I have /Volumes/OldMacHD with a UUID of XYZ. I have /Volumes/Mirror1 with ...
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On a Mac, how can I find all files on a NTFS partition that have the same name, given case *in*sensitivity?
Here's the deal, I have a huge mess of files on an external drive that is formatted as NTFS. I wish to copy all of these files onto my MacBook Pro.
NTFS, like sane filesystems, is case sensitive. HFS ...
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Un-do Windows disk convert HFS+
Last night, a friend asked my to give him a copy of a word document. He handed me an external hard drive and left.
I plugged the hard drive into my file server running Windows Server 2003, opened ...
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What are 'damaged files' on external hard drive (HFS format for OS X)?
I have an external HD formatted to default HFS (Mac OS Extended - Journaled) and very once and a while I get a folder called DamagedFiles in the root of the volume. The folder contains a collection ...
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How can I format a partition as HFS on a PC?
For various unimportant reasons, I want to format a partition using MacOS's native HFS filesystem.
Is there any software that will let me do this on a PC, without connecting the hard drive directly ...
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shrinking an hfs+ partition
I have a GPT partitioned disk with 2 HFS+ partitions. I am trying to shrink the first partition.
things I have tried so far:
use Disk Utility.app
error: "The partition cannot be resized. Try ...
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How to disable journaling on an HFS+ HDD in Ubuntu without using a Mac?
How to disable journaling on an HFS+ HDD in Ubuntu without using a Mac?
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How to mount a HFS partition in Ubuntu as Read/Write?
I plugged in my external harddrive (which was formatted on my Mac into HFS+ journaled) to my Ubuntu desktop 9.04 64bit. I am not able to get the drive to mount with write capability, how do I do that?...
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OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard no longer mounting an external USB drive
I have a 1TB generic external hard drive containing a single HFS partition. I originally formatted this using Disk Utility and it worked fine. Now, for some reason, it's not auto-mounting when I start ...
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HFS+ Rsync on Linux
I want to back up one HFS+ drive to another, but they are both inside an Ubuntu box, which is my HTPC/File-server. I have all Mac and Linux machines. Anyways, what is going to happen with the resource ...
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Mac OS X 10.4: Non-destructively enlarge HFS+ partition
I have a MacBook running OS X 10.4.11. Some time ago I shrank my main hard disk partition in order to dual-boot with Linux, but now I am running out of space on the Macintosh partition, and I would ...
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PowerPC boot CD that can read NTFS partitions
I am looking for a boot CD that will boot a power PC (linux, bsd, OSX) and allow read/write access to HFS+ and NTFS partitions. What is the best option?
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Resize HFS+ Partition
Is there any way that I can resize (grow, in this case) a HFS+ partition?
I tried gparted and acronis but of them none seem to be able to do it.
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How to use HFS formatted pen drive in Windows 7?
I recently used disk utility in my mac book pro to format my 8 GB pen drive to install OS X. After that I formatted my pen drive from disk utility as FAT32 so that I would be able to use it in windows....
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Formatting LVM partition with HFS+
I've already tried fsck.hfsplus from hfsprogs, which doesn't do anything at all, and gparted (doesn't work with LVM). Are there any other ways to do that? If all else fails I have OSX install DVD, but ...
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Is it possible to take a filesystem image and write it to a device to take up the space of the drive
Essentially what I want to do is create an image of a filesystem then write that filesystem to a flash drive. Currently I am trying to create an hfs filesystem in the form of a file on an ext3 ...
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How do I look at disk journals under OS X?
About 2000 files just turned up missing on my Mac, with no clues as to where they went or how they were deleted. I have disk journaling enabled, so I'd like to look at the journals. Hopefully, they'...
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Read OS X partition from Windows 7 [closed]
I have installed Windows 7 onto my Macbook using Boot Camp, but i find the whole experience very quiet seeing I cannot access my music that resides on the OS X partition. Is there software out there ...
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