Questions tagged [hfs]
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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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Mount encrypted HFS in ubuntu
I try to mount an encrypted HFS+ partition in Ubuntu.
An older post described quite good how to do it, but lacks the information how to use encrypted partitions.
What I found so far is:
# install ...
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Why has my Mac been running fsck_hfs for two days now?
I first noticed that fsck_hfs was running, taking up 50-75% of a CPU, yesterday. It continues to run today.
Running ps -ax shows that it is doing /sbin/fsck_hfs -f -n -x -E /dev/disk3. Only problem: I ...
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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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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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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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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 does one change the UUID of a Volume on Mac OS X to a SPECIFIED value?
This is similar to the question asked here:
How does one change the UUID of a Volume on Mac OS X 10.6?
Only difference is I want to change it to a specific value, not a random one. The hfs.util only ...
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Why does my freshly-formatted disk have 450 MB of data on it?
The answer is probably obvious, but I'm sure enquiring minds want to know: if I erase a disk and reformat it, what's already taking up almost half a gigabyte of space? In this case, it's formatted HFS+...
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What characters are forbidden in OS X filenames?
Is there a list of characters which are not allowed in filenames and paths on OS X?
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Case sensitive folder names in OS X
I have two folders on a Tomcat server:
linkredirect
LINKredirect
(I know it is bad practice to use upper case, but it is out of my control)
Both directories are hosted on the server and there is ...
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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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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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Why are Mac OS X alias files so large?
On Mac OS X, I have two aliases in my Applications folder, each points to another folder. They are 1 MB each. Why so large?
I've found other sources on the Internet to say that yes, alias files can ...
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SSD Garbage Collection OS X
Does the SandForce controller have garbage collection
and does it work with the HFS+ filesystem?
Does garbage collection
have a significant effect on new SSD controllers on OS's without
TRIM ...
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Windows 7 can't see exFat partition that I made in OSX Disk Utility
My HDD is formatted as the following
[HFS+ OSX SYSTEM PARTITION]
[HFS+ OSX TIME MACHINE PARTITION (just for convenient history)]
[NTFS WINDOWS 7 SYSTEM PARTITION]
[exFAT PARTITION]
[FREE SPACE]
the ...
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locked files on HFS+ home partition shared between OSX/Linux
I dual boot into Arch Linux and OS X 10.6 on my MacBook pro. I synced my UID between both OSes and created an HFS partition (with no journaling) to use as a shared home/Users partition. For the most ...
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Service for retrieving data from old Macintosh floppies
I have a bunch of old Mac floppies, from whatever System was common in 1995. I've been wanting to get this data off of these floppies for some time but feet dragging has led to the current state ...
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Speed difference HFS and NTFS for data
I have two partitions, one NTFS and the other a Mac OS X HFS+ Journaled drive. My data mainly consists of Music (mp3, m4a files, videos (mkv, avi, wmv) and stored files (iso, exe and development files)...
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External Mac harddrive read errors
I have an external drive (500gb WD Passport) with some data on that I would like to access. The disk is formated with Mac OS Extended (journaled, case sensitive), ignoring file ownership.
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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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Fastest way to change the type of a partition? NTFS -> HFS+
Currently I have a 1TB drive with the following arrangement
500GB NTFS (with my data on it)
500GB HFS+ (empty)
I would like to change this to:
1TB HFS+ (with my data)
How can I effectively change ...
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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 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 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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Why can files be emailed between different file systems but removable drives have problems?
If you have a USB memory stick that is shared between a computer running Windows and OS X then the best option is to format with FAT as this is understood by both filesystems. Why isn't this a problem ...
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GParted failing to shrink hfs+ partition; Mac OSX disk utility reporting no space left
I'm trying to make a spot for Ubuntu on my external drive from which I boot my mac. Right now, the drive has only one partition, an hfs+ partition that stores Mac OS X.
I'm using gparted to modify ...
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Recover Files From Formatted HFS+ Partition
I offered to help a friend of mine with his computer, and it turned out to be a bit more complicated than I first thought. He originally came to me asking me to recover some of his files from his ...
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If I burn a dvd with files on mac, is it going to be readable on another systems?
I don't want to burn a DVD with files that is only going to be read by newer Windows versions, and not by a Linux box.
Can I trust on Mac's bultin DVD recorder in Finder in creating fully compatible ...
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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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How to repair HFS+ extended attributes file?
Is there any tool able to repair/rebuild extended attributes file?
For now I tried fsck_hfs from Mac OS X 10.6.3 Retail DVD, fsck.hfsplus from GParted 0.5.2 livecd and Paragon Partition Manager 11. ...
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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 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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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 can I mount an HFS (not HFS+) filesystem read/write in Linux?
I have some HFS disk images (pre-Mac OS 8; not HFS+) which I'd like to be able to mount read/write in Linux. However, this command:
sudo mount -t hfs -o force,rw sys7.dsk mnt
gives me:
mount: /...
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Linux: mounting, or at least accessing both "partitions" of a Hybrid HFS/ISOFS CD-ROM image
Heyo,
So I happen to have at least one CD - in this case, an Enhanced CD of Roger Sanchez's "Another Chance" - that I'm trying to make a backup of, but although I can seem to successfully back up ...
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What does this mean and what do I do about it? crucial filesystem check: Fixing Bogus GID 80 on path /sbin/launchd
A few days ago my website got hacked and a malicious file called images.pl was uploaded which creates a backdoor that allows the file's author to upload/download/do whatever they want. Later I found ...
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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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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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Does an external hard drive or USB thumb drive use a journaling file system?
It was said that nowadays, common file systems such as NTFS and HFS+ use a journaling mechanism so that when power is cut out or if there is a power outage, the hard drive is still in good shape and ...
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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 convert Hierarchical File System (HFS) to FAT/NTFS?
I know how to change FAT32 to NTFS file system and vice-versa. But I am unaware of Hierarchical File System (HFS). So please tell me if anyone knows how to convert HFS to NTFS/FAT32 ?
Thanks in ...
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Change owner of folder on read-only drive in Ubuntu
My IMac died (power supply issue, out of warranty) and I removed the HDD so I could recover some files. I'm trying to copy files from my Desktop folder on the Mac HDD using Ubuntu 10.04 (running from ...
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Drobo not mounting. Disk repair doesn't work either
While transferring data to my 2nd gen Drobo power went out.
Now my Drobo is not mounting to my OS X 10.6.3
I have tried Disk Repair and this error message appears:
Verify and Repair volume “disk1s2”
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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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How to create HFS+ partition on Windows 7 machine
I'm running Windows 7 and I would like to partition my D: volume and make it HFS+, but I cannot find any tool that will accomplish this.
Has anyone done this before? Is it possible? I have EaseUS ...
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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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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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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 ...