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A logical drive is treated as any normal hard drive in the operating system.

A single physical hard drive can contain any number of logical drives. When created, these logical drives are not physically separated, as they exist on the same hard drive, but they are virtually separated, and treated as individual drives.

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On which physical drive is this logical drive?

I want to understand where logical drives (e.g. C:, D:) are mapped on physical drives (e.g. I have a Western Digital and a Toshiba physical disks connected to my laptop). On Linux, I would do something like: lsblk to see the filesystem layout. …
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How to remove duplicate "ghost" network drive on OS X?

In terminal my Volumes directory looks like this: "Sanitized"-Computer:Volumes "sanatizedUserName"$ ls Backup of "Sanitized"’s MacBook Macintosh HD LaCie iDisk LaCie-1 Somehow I have a duplicate "LaCie" drive and…
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Is it possible to mount a volume to a custom drive prefix, e.g. "myDrive:\"?

Am I just a dreamer, or does something like this exist?
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What is the "/.vol" directory for?

In Mac OS X, what is the /.vol directory for? I noticed that Excel usually reverences files (while investigating in instruments) using a /.vol path. Is it a folder for temporary files, or does it contain links to all files in the volume? If so, how…
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SSD Block Sizing

I've been looking at logical and physical block sizes for disks... [old disks] logically(4KB) -> physically(8 * 512B) -------Data Cluster [new disks,old OS] logically(4KB) -> physically(4KB(8 * 512B)) ------AF *512e Mode [new disks,new OS]…
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Is it possible to change an encrypted volume's password w/o recreating the volume?

I have a 10G encrypted volume bundle created with Disk Utility. I want to change it's encryption password. How can I do that?
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How do I mount a multi-disk Windows NTFS RAID/logical drive on Linux?

I have two 500GB hard drives from an old Windows laptop at my workplace. My boss has asked me to copy the contents to the file server if possible, with the caveat that absolutely no data may be lost. Normally, backups would suffice for this, but…
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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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What's the easiest way to migrate one Mac OS X volume to another

I want to move a volume from a smaller drive to a larger unformatted one. What is the best way to achieve this? Ideally I'd like the new volume to have the same name as the older volume as it contains user accounts, and is a destination of various…
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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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Move files by default (instead of copy) between volumes

The current default for dragging-and-dropping to a volume F: different from the Windows volume C: is to copy the file/folder. C: and F: are NTFS partitions on the same hard drive. How can I make the default a simple move instead? Holding Shift is a…
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bash command to display a partition label

Which bash command shows the volume label?
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Shared NTFS logical partition unaccesible from Windows 8.1

I asked this question a while ago but it got lost, so I deleted the previous one and created this new one with updates from the comments. I just installed Windows 8.1 in a partition of my Lenovo Thinkpad T420 which also has an Ubuntu partition. As…
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Is it possible to grow a volume in a Mac OS X partition?

I'm using my main office server as a "poor man's Time Capsule" with Time Machine to back up my Mac OS X boxes. It works fine but I've just built a nicer/faster/bigger server so I wanted to extend the volume that my iMac is backing up onto. With Disk…
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"Assign Drive Letter" v.s. "Assign Path", any differences besides the obvious?

In windows drive management, when you create a new volume you have the choice of mounting that new volume to a drive letter, or you can mount it to a folder. So if you mount it to c:\Foo, then whenever you go to c:\Foo you will be actually…
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