Questions tagged [hfs+]
HFS+ is a filesystem used almost exclusively on Apple computers running Mac OS X (or its predecessors since Mac OS 8). The default HFS+ configuration only has read-only support in the Linux kernel.
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Bash, the -nt fails when comparing two rsynced files between APFS and HFS+
While writing a backup Bash script, I've copied files from an APFS file system to an external drive that is HFS+ (I don't want to convert it to APFS because sometimes I need to read/write files with ...
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How to (is it possible to) fix Mac drive on Linux?
I have an external USB 4 TB hard drive formatted into Mac OS, which has stopped to be determined in Mac OS. It has 2 partitions, one of which is seen under Windows Disk Management tool, which is ...
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How to read last 1000 sectors of hard drive
Here's the specific issue in short topics I think might be relevant: I have a Western Digital (my book Studio) external drive. (the old version, bought somewhere around 2009 that has both USB and ...
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Define partitions to install Linux but considering Security and Administration aspects/concerns
Scenario: for simplicity - consider that exists a hard disk of 500GB to only install Linux (for example Ubuntu, Debian or Fedora) - and if exists a hard disk of 750GB or 1TB then 500GB are dedicated ...
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Need help with 7z command
I have a file called BaseSystem.dmg which contains a hfs+ system image as well as other files. I am trying to extract just the hfs+ system image file using 7z from the p7zip-full package. I have tried ...
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Cloned only a single encrypted HFS+-partition, not the whole disk (ddrescue)
I cloned a single partition type HFS+ encrypted to a file image using ddrescue. The disk is not damaged, I only needed the space on the disk for something. Now I realised that I forgot to clone the ...
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How can I copy files with characters like '?' and ':' from a read-only drive to ntfs?
I have a drive of files recovered from a mac (hfs+) that I'm trying to copy over to an ntfs volume so that they can be accessed from a Windows machine. There are, unfortunately, quite a few files with ...
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How to recover HFS+ Partition Catalog (Possible failing drive)
I have a 1TB External drive that was formatted HFS+ for use with a Macintosh Apple Computer. The drive is completely full. I'm using Linux to try to recover all the files, or to repair the disk and ...
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