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quack quixote
windows drivers filesystems virtual-drive hfs
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 and installed Windows 7 (64 bit). The Boot Camp driver package includes file system drivers that enable Windows to access the Mac OS HFS+ partition. It’s read-only access, but it works.Now, I have some disk images of stuff I usually install, so I grabbed a copy of Daemon Tools to mount them. When I mou
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benc
virtualbox fat32 hfs osx
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 appear to be HFS+ vs. FAT32.For the time being, I simply created two half-sized paritions, one of each type. :)I plan to run various versions of Windows, and keep the VirtualBox files on the external drive.UPDATE: to clarify-> I’m not concerned about letting my VirtualBox VMs mount this drive, I’m talkin
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Benedikt Wutzi
mac chmod hfs
I have just saved some data from a crashed PC to my external HD, which is a HFS+ Volume using Ubuntu live (regular copy no dd). Now I am lost: I don’t have any privileges in the Folder i copied on my Macbook. I tried changing it using chmod and chown, both as regular user and as root, but I always get a “operation not permitted”. The owner for all those files is “999”.It worked to set it to ignore Ownership.
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bmike
lion disk-utility filevault recovery hfs
I recently experienced a kernel panic (“your mac must restart…”) due to an issue with Macfusion, so after the reboot I loaded Disk Utility in an attempt to verify the disk in case something was left in a bad state. Disk Utility claims that my main partition is unmounted, though it’s clearly not.Is there something amiss here or am I just suffering from post-crash paranoia? The system appears to be running properly.Note: I’m running OS X Lion and am using File Vault. If (because of FV) this is e
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MrDaniel
osx mac power desktop hfs
Eg when the power supply is cut or someone presses the power button for 5 seconds? How big of a risk am I taking to my data? Is it a 1% chance of corrupting data? I know most mac these days have a Journal-ed File system, so I am guess the risk is very small? Is this an accurate assumption?Assuming the Mac is writing data, whats the risk of data corruptions? Assuming the Mac is idling, whats the risk of data corruptions?
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daniel Azuelos
security disk-format hfs quality
What reasons are there for choosing the case-insensitive version of HFS+ when formatting the primary drive partition? Would case-sensitive not always be the best choice?
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gelraen
mac filesystems repair hfs
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. All without any success.This man page states that fsck_hfs have -R option to specify which B-trees need to be rebuilt, but I’ve not found anywhere fsck_hfs binary that accepts this option.Now I have HDD with broken HFS+ attached to VM in VirtualBox over network (via FreeBSD’s GEOM gate), because I curr