Creating a new disk formatting scheme or altering an existing scheme
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How can I attach a disk to existing ZFS zpool mirror with Ubuntu and ZEVO?
Is it possible to attach a third hdd to a already created mirror consisting of two hdds with ZEVO?
Ubuntu
I run an Ubuntu Virtual Machine with native ZFS support. When I attach the third hdd it ...
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Resetting MBR on iMac
I installed Ubuntu on my iMac (partially successfully) I had rEFIT installed but it did not recognize the Ubuntu installation.
I removed the partition and rEFIT and now when I attempt to install ...
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1answer
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50% SSD Space lost issue on MBA
I have an MBA 2009, model A1304. The Hard drive system information says its an "Apple SSD SM128". But when I look at the available and total space, I have one partition 28.8GB (bootcamp) and one ...
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Why is the Mountain Lion Installer unable to complete due to recovery partition problems?
I just bought the Mountain Lion upgrade, but it's unable to complete. When I select my harddrive it says:
Some features of OS X Mountain Lion are not supported for the disk
“kollaps”.
...
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1answer
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FreeBSD Install DVD corrupted my Mac OS X harddisk
Recently, I have tried a FreeBSD 7.4 i386 Install DVD, just to see some screens of FreeBSD on my Mac mini Intel 2006. I was going to see (to remember) just several dialog screen of and perhaps I would ...
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1answer
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Boot Camp Assistant crashes when partitioning drive (exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS)
I run Mountain Lion, a fresh install, brand new Macbook Pro. HD: Samsung 840 Pro 512 GB SSD.
When trying to go through Boot Camp Assistant / Setup it works fine until it wants to repartition my ...
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1answer
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Black screen when installing Boot Camp?
I recently did a complete wipe of my late 2009 MBP and restore using a Time Machine backup, so I would have uninterupted space at the end of the drive for creating a Boot Camp partition. The Boot Camp ...
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1answer
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Recover GPT Hard Disk files on Windows
My friends 2008(ish) era macbook pro died recently but the SATA HDD is fine, I have removed it and plugged it into a Windows 7 machine. I can see in Paragon Partition Manager that the drive is a GPT ...
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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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1answer
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Recover a deleted encrypted partition?
As my previous external HDD threw some disturbing SMART Warnings, I bought a new Hard Drive. It arrived earlier today, I formatted it and made some backups onto it at it has more space and I wanted to ...
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1answer
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diskutil coreStorage in Lion fails to create a concatenated LVG, error -69886
I would like to create a logical volume group (LVG) with two physical disks.
Issue
The command:
diskutil coreStorage create LVGNAME /dev/disk1 /dev/disk2
returns:
Started CoreStorage ...
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1answer
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Lost Windows after repartitioning with Disk Utility
I've just re-partitioned my hard-drive using Disk Utility. I shrank my Mac OS X partition and created a new one with the available space. However, after rebooting, the option to start under Windows is ...
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How to resize Mac OS Extended (Journaled) partition after linux messed it up?
I've tried to use Ubuntu on my macbook pro (6,2), but it was a total and abject failure, mainly due to poor hardware support.
So, I have given up on my little experiment and just deleted ubuntu and ...
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1answer
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External drive not being recognized. Has Filevault HFS+ and FAT32 on same disk
I have a 750gb external hard drive that stopped being recognized. I can't tell with full certainty but I think it was after I connected it to a Windows computer. I've read online, in the meantime, how ...
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1answer
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Formatting OSX partition
I have a Macbook Pro with 3 partitions:
HFS (OSX)
FAT (Ubuntu)
NTFS (Windows 7)
and I want to format only the OSX partition and do a clean install without touching the other operating system ...
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1answer
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How to extend bootcamp partition?
When I was installing windows 7 on my mac I allocated 55GB to my bootcamp partition, I now realise that it is not enough for me. is there a way to extend it, without loosing any data and re-instaling ...
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BootCamp partition disappeared
Running Macbook Pro with snow leopard, I partitioned with bootcamp assistant to install dual boot between MacOS and windows 7. However, now it shows that my Mac Hard Disk is 499 GB, but available only ...
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How do I format an encrypted Integral Secure Key?
I just bought an Integral Secure Key from the Apple store but am fed up with having to use its own software just to transfer files to it as it does not appear as a normal USB drive in Finder.
How can ...
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0answers
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What kind of partition should I use for a shared network drive used mostly un Mac?
I have a 2TB external USB drive that I'm using to share things in my home network.
Now the drive is connected to my Mac Mini, that is supposed to act like a file server.
Currently the drive is ...
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Why does my 3TB Seagate HD keep formatting as a Logical Volume Group
This is really annoying. I have a brand new Seagate 3TB 7200 RPM hard drive that I am trying to format/partition in Disk Utility. Every time I change any settings or erase the drive, it changes it to ...
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Help needed with Boot Camp Setup
I have a 2009 27" Core2Duo 8GB RAM iMac. The hard drive is a brand new 3TB with a fresh install of 10.8.3. I want to install Windows 7 64bit.
I set up some basic settings and have a backup at the ...
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Deleted Mac OS X boot image but can still access files via Boot Camp Windows
Ok, I know I completely messed up here and it's all my fault, but moving past that -- can anyone help me fix this situation?
I used Boot Camp to install Windows 7 on my MacBook the other day. Then, ...
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My New Internal HD is mounted as /Volumes/hdd
I replaced my optical disk with an SSD for startup and Mountain Lion and upgraded my HDD to a larger one.
I also moved my home folder to the new disk. But one thing is still bugging me.
My mid-2010 ...
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How to keep /Volumes symbolic links from getting auto-deleted?
I moved my /Users directory to a separate disk/partition (to get it off my SSD boot disk) as per this post. However, some things (like double-clicks of .html files to be viewed in a an Opera browser) ...
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Bootcamp not working after partitioning Macintosh HD
I installed Windows 7 using bootcamp on my Early 2011 MBP. I gave 130GB to Win7 and rest to Mac HD. Once all was done, I created a new partition within Mac HD. The partition was created successfully ...
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Disk Utility Error Message - Missing EFI + MediaKit
Previously setup was with 2 partitions, one for normal use while the other had the Lion Install ESD on it, used when I installed some time ago. The other day my machine suddenly shutdown and when I ...
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merging free space into a partition that logically lies before the partition
On my MBP 2011, I had a dual-boot setup with Snow Leopard (that originally shipped with my laptop) and Lion Developer Preview GM that I had installed later, using Disk Utility to appropriate modify ...
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Bootcamp-partition doesn't show up in startvolume-selection so it can't be used in Paralells
I've got a 10.8.4 machine with the latest Paralells installed. I'm using my Bootcamp-partition (Windows 7) in Paralells as a virtual machine.
This works very good.
I'd like to do the same with my ...
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Bootcamp and Macbook Pro and TrueCrypt
I am using Bootcamp on my Macbook Pro and have Windows 7 installed.
Unfortunately, due to the changing nature of my work, I need to switch to full time Windows, and encrypt my laptop. I'm going to ...
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Time Machine/Capsule: Restoration Questions
I have had the most difficult time figuring out whether my time capsule fd will be able to restore from a linux-partitioned hdd or not. As a high school graduation gift, I received a macbook pro (13", ...
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Limit the viewing of Bootcamp partition based on user
Currently I have a macbook pro with a bootcamp partition. I've got it set up so both partitions can see each other i.e. when you are logged into OSX you can view the files on the windows bootcamp ...
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How do I recover a GPT partition possibly overwritten by the Windows recovery tool
I've had a good look around the web and can find similar problems but nothing specific to mine.
I recently installed Zorin OS onto my step dad's computer to breathe a little Linux-life into it. I ...
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ML and SL on a MacBook Pro
My MacBook Pro's 250GB HD is partitioned into bootable Mountain Lion and Snow Leopard volumes. From SL, I can see/access all files on the ML partition. But from ML, I can't see/access any files from ...
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How to order partitions in diskutil?
I have the same problem as this guy
How to resize Macintosh HD?
But :
In the 2nd answer @paulgrav uses diskutil
Now I have this second issue :
Does someone know how to reorder the partitions in ...
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How can I add an HFS+ partition to an MBR-partitioned external drive
I have a 1Tb external drive that currently has two partitions -
64 Gb NTFS
524 Gb ext2
The remaining 414Gb is unused and shows as "Free Space" on the Mac's Disk Utility. I'd like to take 250Gb ...
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Resizing Disk Partition works for some but not for others
I have a external hard drive that is partitioned using Disk utility into:
1) one partition per machine for Time Machine backup
2) for work disk
3) for file archive
4) for OS back ups
While the ...
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How can I install Diablo 3 while continuing to use File Vault 2?
This is a follow-up to the already answered question on Gaming SO site (How can I install Diablo 3 if I use FileVault?), which suggests that users of File Vault 2 use a non-FV2 partition to install ...
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What is the strange 4.2GB partition that happened from partitioning a Mac hard drive the second time?
I got a new Macbook Pro Retina with a 256GB SSD. The first thing I did was to try to create 2 more partitions, each one 60GB, so that one is for Windows 7, and one is for any OS X Mountain Lion ...
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How do I keep a partition from loading and connecting on startup?
I have a Mac Pro with four drives that all load on start up, and show up on the desktop as they should. The problem lies in the Windows 7 drive, as it also load and connects a System Restore ...
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Can't resize shrunken boot partition to fill empty space
I needed to make room on my Windows 7 partition to install a new program, so I did some searching on how to resize a partition and it told me to shrink the OSX side and then expand the Windows one ...
