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Hot File Clustering with multiple partitions
I'm planning a performance-oriented clean install of OS X 10.6 and I was wondering if the hot file clustering feature will exists only on the boot partition or if there will be one for each partition ...
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How to repair external hard drive that fails diskutil with 'Disk Full Error'
If I run fsck_hfs -y -d /dev/rdisk2s10 it putters along, rebuilds the catalog B-tree then fails when writing the new catalog to disk.
bash-3.2# fsck_hfs -d -y /dev/rdisk2s10
** /dev/rdisk2s10
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What documentation exists to explain TheVolumeSettingsFolder on OS X?
looris@Palace-of-the-Nine-Moons:/tmp $ tree /TheVolumeSettingsFolder/
/TheVolumeSettingsFolder/
└── HFSExtentTables
└── OVDBHDR4R6PVQJPJRE6QTLCBNS
├── 8PHMGCTSVNFUN915KNSCRDST3K
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OS X: fsck_hfs unable to fix volume directory count
I'm running fsck_hfs on a very large volume. Unfortunately, there's an issue it appears to be unable to fix -- it reports it, loops back to start with Rechecking..., and reports it again, ad ...
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Change “ignore ownership on this volume” from the command line for Mac OS X volume
(This question is a spin-off of another question I asked on this site.)
New images always ignore owner/group
When creating a new disk image from Disk Utility it is automatically mounted. If you then ...
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Cannot change owner and group of file mounted disk image
I have an external disk which (for other reasons) is formatted using FAT32. On that disk I have created a sparse bundle image formatted using HFS extended (journaled). This image is then mounted on ...
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What are the advantages of formatting an external disk as journaled HFS+?
The application Disk Utility /Library/Utilites/Disk Utility.app which is part of the applications that ship with the Mac OS allows to reformat an external disk.
Options include:
Mac OS Extended ...
