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Partitioning an HFS+/MBR-formatted external drive without data loss
(Likely a duplicate, but Google is failing me)
I have a 2 TB external hard drive, formatted with a single HFS+ partition and an MBR partitioning scheme. It's currently holding a backup of my old ...
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How to extract just the .hfs partition from a dmg file
I have a macOS dmg file.. BaseSystem.dmg. It is compressed and contains various hfs partitions..
# file BaseSystem.dmg
BaseSystem.dmg: zlib compressed data
What I want to do
I want to extract just ...
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What does it mean if my partition type is HFS/HFS+ but contents are FAT?
I have formatted my external hard disk with the command sudo mkfs.vfat /dev/sda2.
The disks utility still shows that the partition is of type HFS, so is this safe to use at the moment? I want to use ...
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using gpart & testdisk to recover GPT for Files from damaged HFS+ (Apple) HD
I want to recover gpt from my external USB Hard Disk.
I tried these questions:
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/296151/recover-files-from-corrupted-external-usb-hd-macos-sierra
https://...
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A partition copied with cat can't be mounted
OK, I asked it in AskDifferent, but seems that apple folks don't get the idea that everything is file in unix.
Well some days ago my mac got broken, I had an Ubuntu on it and booted through it, first ...
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Problems with a HFS+ hdd on Ubuntu Server 14.04
I have a 2TB Western Digital HDD with one partition formatted as HFS+.
I tried pretty much everything to make it readable (not even writable) from Ubuntu Server, but had no success.
I tried:
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Protocol driver not attached (hfs+)
On a 12.04 LTS system, I am attempting to mount an SSD that was formerly in a Macbook Pro. It has four partitions, one with a Ubuntu install, one for swap, one a Macintosh recovery partition, and the ...
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How to manage permissions on a shared volume for OSX and ubuntu
On my mac I'm using an unjournaled HFS partition to share files between OSX 10.8 and Ubuntu 12.04.
It was a nice thought at first, because Time Machine will automatically backup the volume in OSX, but ...
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Mounting HFS+ drive over network, write not required
I really need to figure out how to configure out how to get my linux box to mount a drive from my mac. They are permanently networked.
My Mac is called fuzzy, and has been set up to allow the Movies ...
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'Unable to mount Filesystem' Error
Trying to extract data from a 'bricked' Western Digital MyBook Live 2tb drive.
I came across a forum that advised to use Ubuntu (booted from a CD) on my Macbook. Managed to download and create a ...
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