Questions tagged [hfs+]
A filesystem developed by Apple Inc. to extend HFS. Also known as "Mac OS Extended" "HFS Extended."
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Under Catalina, should I use HFS+ or APFS when symlinking media folders to external drive
As I'm planning to install an SSD into my iMac with smaller capacity than the internal Fusion Drive its replacing, I will need to symlink my Movies, Music and Pictures folders to an external mains ...
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Terminal command to remove custom icon from file (HFS+)
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In Mac OS X / macOS you can select a file in the Finder, click Informations then click the icon, and paste any image/icon that is in the clipboard. Now this file has a custom icon made of ...
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How to merge an HFS+ partition into my APFS partition
I want to merge an empty HFS+ partition with my Mac's APFS partition. My Disk Utility interface looks like this :
How can I do this ?
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update unsupported mac with OS X lion to APFS 10.15
Please confirm if one can help me update unsupported mac book late 2008
HFS+ to APFS
Last 2008
current OS X Lion
Mac book 5.1
Omt; Cpre 2 Duo processor
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1 processor
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L2 cache 3mb
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fsck and Disk Utility won't repair Volume: invalid b-tree node size
I accidentally wrote some .iso data to a disk through dd by mistake. I cancelled the command after just 2 seconds but that was enough to wipe the first EFI partition (200MB) and a bit of the second ...
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Could removing corrupted files on the MacBook or Mac's hard drive make the file system's health even worse?
I tried to move some files from the MacBook's SSD to a network drive (by drag and drop) , and the "Copy" window reported the file was corrupted. If I remove the file and empty out the trash can, could ...
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Is it possible to repair a Mac external hard drive's partition table, without access to a Mac?
I tried to create an NTFS partition on an HFS+ formatted Mac external hard drive, from within Windows. This hosed the GUID table.
In order to try to recover the files, I had to turn off journaling, ...
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Using a HFS+ formatted Time Machine backup in APFS Catalina
I've updated to MacOS Catalina on my MacBook Air. The system drive has been formatted as APFS now. I want to revert back to an older state of the system with an older MacOS (I believe it's Yosemite) ...
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Recommended disk format for external SSD running as system drive for a 2019 iMac
I'm setting up a new 2019 iMac with an internal Fusion drive. I have an external 1TB Samsung T5 SSD drive that I'd like to use velcroed to the back of the iMac as the main system drive in order to ...
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Copying 84 gigabyte file via USB results in duplicate file warning and case sensitive fail where no duplicate exists
I'm attempting to copy an 84 Gigabyte photo library from an external Case-sensitive Journaled HFS+ disk to a newly formatted case-insensitive APFS SSD. The external disk is in an external drive bay ...
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Double encryption when using encrypted Time Machine on MacOS Extended encrypted?
When I create a backup partition on an external USB drive formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted) and then use Time Machine to backup to this partition with Time machine's encryption ...
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Disk encryption format for external drives that works on both macos and linux
Is there any disk encryption scheme or format that can be used on both macos and linux?
Linux cannot read Apple's drive encryption format, and LUKS is not supported on MacOS.
I tried using VeraCrypt ...
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How to read Mac OS Extended (Journaled) USB drive if I'm getting: "The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer"?
So, I wanted to do a fresh install of Catalina, and have done a backup on my USB drive. Before transferring the data to USB, I've formatted it as "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)". After I've installed ...
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Why does conversion of non-bootable hfs+ external drive to apfs fail (on macOS Mojave)? com.apple.DiskManagement error -69888
The attempted conversion is failing. Does anyone know why?
Disk Utility.app error:
Converting “mySSD” to APFS
Converting HFS Volume to an APFS Container which will export one APFS Volume
The target ...
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Symlinks became files, containing relative paths, within an app bundle, why? How to fix?
I discovered an interesting form of corruption within some application bundles which had been stored on a file server for months and years.
The application bundles were installers for various macOS ...
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trying to Recover an HFS+ Partition The table looks fine but Disk Utility and fsck_hfs failed
I have been trying to recover my partition, on another mac, running Sierra, first I tried the usual, disk utility, and I got a list of "missing thread record" like this
Then I moved into TestDisk and ...
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Accidentally deleted my encrypted coldstorage drive. Can I recover it somehow? diskutil cs delete MAC
The hard drive connection broke in my macbook pro. I used a sata to usb cable and put it on the mac, it still didnt boot.
I went into Recovery. I believe the drive originally had 3 partitions. One ...
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Time Machine: Backups.backupdb uses way too much space when copied to another volume
I'm in the process of copying my TM backups to another volume. I followed these instructions: formatted the new volume, set the permissions, disabled automatic TM backup and dragged Backups.backupdb ...
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How to Mount extended case-sensitive journaled volume on APFS directory, permanently if possible
Source:
/dev/disk0s3
UUID=894D79A6-40BD-306A9784-BEBAB444B1A
hfs, local, journaled case-sensitive
Destination:
/dev/disk1s1
UUID=F692F645-EE36-3CD6-AC09-BCD8FFCC6F3C
apfs, local, journaled ...
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How do I split Fusion drive on Mojave / APFS?
I have a 2013 iMac (27" 3.5GHz i7, model id iMac14,2, EMC 2639) that has a Fusion drive. I want to replace the Fusion's internal HDD with an SSD. My understanding is that I should split the Fusion ...
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Disk utility has no option to expand HFS+ volume?
I'm trying to expand my HFS+ volume (selected in picture) to use adjacent space, but there is no option to do it in disk utility (!)
I just resized my APFS partition in order to create the free space,...
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Why is fsck_hfs slow on *journaled* HFS+
Sometimes my external drives get uncleanly detached, and at the next connection a disk check is necessary.
What surprises me now is to see a slow disk check process on a journaled filesystem. ...
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Alternatives to APFS which keeps corrupting itself? [duplicate]
Macos mojave locked up, forcing me to reboot. I was then presented with the prohibitory symbol indicating that the OS can no longer load. It was caused by APFS being corrupted, confirmed by disk ...
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Why can I not make a hard link to PkgInfo?
With bash as my shell, a simple way to demonstrate my question is this:
mkdir -p foo.app/Contents
cd foo.app/Contents
echo -n 'AEgxFXTC' > PkgInfo
ln PkgInfo f
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Is there a reason to prefer HFS+ over APFS for disk images in High Sierra and/or Mojave?
I'm creating small encrypted disk images (under 10 GB) to be used to secure and transfer data between systems running High Sierra (for now) and Mojave. Are there any technical reasons to prefer HFS+ (...
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Partition on HFS+ external drive: "Invalid number of allocation blocks", file system check exit code 8. Unable to repair, even in recovery mode
As the title says, I'm getting the error "Invalid number of allocation blocks" on a particular HFS+ partition of an external drive. I am unable to repair, even in recovery mode.
Log results when I ...
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MacBook Pro HDD in Gparted - Main partition "unknown"
I've been given a defective MacBook Pro, seems to be a model from around 2011 - still has a DVD-Drive and a normal HDD.
The MacBook had water spilled over it; so I disassemed it and took the HDD out ...
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Resizing a partition to increase into space before itself
Simple Explanation:
Expanded Explanation:
All I want to do is delete disk0s9 and have disk0s4 resize and take up the empty space.
I want to
Delete container disk4 (disk0s9).
I don't want the ...
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How to use HFS+ encrypted partition as Time Machine backup drive
I formatted one partition on my external drive as MacOS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted).
Now when I open Time Machine and want to use that partition I see a checkbox Encrypt backups.
Because I don'...
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What would be the cleanest method of converting my APFS macOS partition back to HFS+?
After installing High Sierra when it was released, I was initially happy with APFS and gave no care to its relative novelty. Recently I've been using Linux, macOS, and Windows, and having to reboot ...
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When is the GUID partition table (GPT) preferred over Apple partition map (APM) for external drives?
I have seagate external portable hard-drive 1 TB, and I will be using with following Mac's.
13" White MacBook (Intel Core 2 Duo) running Snow Leopard
13" MacBook Air (Intel Core i5) running Lion
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Recover files after Paragon HFS+ Corruption
I have been using Paragon HFS+ to get write access to my Mac HFS+ partition from within Windows 8. Suddenly half the files in a directory have gone missing.
A few months ago I copied the files onto ...
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How can I resize an image created using dd which contains a block-by-block copy of my Mac drive?
I created a copy of a working (but getting a few disk errors) 1TB spinning disk drive using dd. I can mount the image (hdiutil attach or just double click in Finder) no problem and see the files on ...
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USB Hard Drive HFS+ Encrypted Partition Formatted / Recovery
I have a WD 1TB USB External Hard Drive that was accidentally formatted. I had formatted the disk and started writing an ISO to the disk (less than 5 seconds), when I realized it was to the wrong one. ...
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Recover data from external hard drive partition Mac OS X
A couple of weeks ago, I dropped my external drive while a program was writing data to it. The drive seems to spin up fine, without beeps/scratches. The drive also has EFI and Recovery partitions. One ...
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How to prevent conversion to APFS on High Sierra install
The current understanding seems to indicate that "all SSD" machines will have at least their main/root file system converted to APFS on the install of High Sierra.
That means HFS+ is still a viable ...
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Why is macOS forcibly renaming my USB drive?
I have a USB Drive named "Cuthbert", and various apps use paths starting with /Volumes/Cuthbert when it is plugged in. However, my laptop is putting it at /Volumes/Cuthbert 1, and won't let me rename ...
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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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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 (...
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Mount HFS+ filesystem with disable read and write caches
I've got the HFS+ filesystem represented by .dmg image file. For security reasons I'd like to make sure every I/O applies directly to the .dmg file and not through any kind of memory in the middle.
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Creating an automated HFS+ compressed folder
I would like to set up an automated way for archiving files in OS X Lion. By archiving I mean using HFS+ compression feature on a specific folder, and make every file that I move into this folder ...
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Extract HFS+/HFSX volume from dmg file
Dmg file contains a volume with identifier Apple_HFS, which is compressed with various methods (zlib, bz2, etc.), how can I extract a raw, uncompressed HFS volume from DMG file?
Right now, it cannot ...
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Failed to mount partition of Mac OS Extended (HFS+)
As a matter of fact, my 1 TB External hard disk has three partition: "MAC OS", "NTFS" and "FAT32". All of the partitions worked very well in the past.
However, I just discovered that my Mac OS ...
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auto mount HFS+ filesystem from disk image (.dmg file)
I'd like to auto mount my dmg file which represent disk image with single HFS+ partition upon every boot. is it possible through autofs ? do I have to set the location of the dmg file in any ...
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High Sierra iconserviceagent goes wild
Nearly every time I mount an HFS+ volume on macOS High Sierra 10.13, a process called iconserviceagent reads all its files, sometimes hundreds of gigabytes. The system slows down to a crawl and the ...
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How to mount Core Storage volume under Linux (or force conversion on unrevertible volume)?
I tried to mount HFS+ partition in Linux today, but I had problem with
hfsplus: unable to find HFS+ superblock
I've found later that this partition is in fact Core Storage container for the logical ...
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2nd HDD in Early 2011 MacBook Pro ejects during large file transfers, but only in OSX
I recently installed a 1TB HDD in my early 2011 13" MacBook Pro using an MCE Optibay. The stock 120GB SSD houses an OSX Mavericks install and a Windows 7 install, done basically via Bootcamp. The 1TB ...
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Will migrating an SSD drive to APFS prolong its life?
For Apple hardware that ships with SSD only storage, will switching the file system from HFS+ to APFS prolong the life of an SSD drive?
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Is it OK to use an HFS+ start disk with High Sierra?
I have a clone of my internal SSD on an HFS+ partition of an external drive. I was wondering if there are issues with using such a disk as a startup disk with High Sierra.
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Why does Mac OS X 10.11 ignore new partition size?
Because running out of space on a MacBook Pro 13'' 2009 (type A1278), I cloned its 160 GB Hitachi drive to a 1 TB Seagate HDD.
The MacBook is installed with OS X El Capitan (10.11).
Summary: The ...
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