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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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 the MBR to recover lost partition?
I have accidentally deleted two HFS+ partitions. I know the 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 ...
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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.
I ...
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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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Software to clone HFS+ partition [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Best program to clone partition
I need to clone/backup an entire partition from a Mac Drive, is there any software that can clone the partition for restoring later on?
Thanks
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Installed Paragon HFS+ for Windows 8, now my pc won't recognize the external firewire drive
I'm not incredibly knowledgeable about computers and I really need some help.
Just got a Seagate external firewire drive this morning. I downloaded the necessary pc driver (Paragon HFS+ for Windows 8)...
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HFS for Windows by Paragon BSOD
Installed HFS for Windows 7 yesterday. Did a reboot. Copied some files from my internal drive to external hfs drive. Did another reboot and rebooted to Mac. Mac worked fine. Then yesterday the battery ...
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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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Problem with using rsync to transfer files on remote server to local HFS+ partition
I have some files (specifically music files) on a remote filesystem (ext3) that I'm connecting to via SSH. I issued this command to copy those files onto a local HFS+ partition:
rsync -r -v --...
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How to mount another hard drive as /Users on OS X?
I replaced a 320 GB HDD with a 128 GB SSD on my Apple laptop, but it turns out that I don't have enough space to put my own stuff under /Users.
I know in Linux systems people can mount another HDD as ...
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Formatting a disk for Macintosh using Linux
I've been asked to move data from an old external hard drive to a new
one, and to make the new one compatible with the Macintosh. (The old
drive's USB connection has died, and I'm connecting to old ...
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What are `Desktop DB` or `Desktop DF` files on external HD?
I have two unknown files called Desktop DB and Desktop DF at the root of an external HD.
The drive is formatted HFS+ and as far as I can remember has only ever been connected to a few Macs.
Both ...
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Free NTFS partition recovery after disk was formatted in Mac OS X
I have a 1Tb disk which was partitioned into a ~700gb ntfs disk and a 300gb HFS+ (Mac OS X). I've accidentally allowed Mac OS X to wipe the hard-disk and create a single HFS+ partition over the hard-...