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? Right now all I'm getting is read access, I…
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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 required packages
sudo apt-get install hfsprogs…
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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 don’t think I have a /dev/disk3.
Why is it…
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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?
Would be best if the software is free, but it…
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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 just fine in linux using this:
mount -o loop -t…
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Read OS X partition from Windows 7
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 that allows me to read (and maybe write) OS X file…
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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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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 up.
Using mount at the command line gives the…
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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 seems to do random.
I considered modifying the…
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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+ journaled on Mac OS X.
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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 be large, but no explanation why. Even if they…
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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 no problem.
The problem arises when I need to…
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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 a UUID of XYZ (same UUID! I bet that's because…
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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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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 purpose of the exFAT partition is to have a…
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