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External Harddrive: Compatible Partitions types
I have an external harddrive, which has a partition of NTFS and 300 GB of unallocated space. Is it possible to use that unallocated space to create a paartition on Macos? The disk utility doesn't let ...
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Triple Boot macOS Sierra / Windows 10 Enterprise / Kali Linux
I'm running into a problem trying to get a Triple Boot working on a MacBook Pro (256GB SSD) for macOS Sierra, Windows 10 Enterprise, and Kali Linux.
It all started today when I went to size down my ...
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I have 4TB hard drive, how to use it under both OSX, windows and linux? [duplicate]
How to format it so that it can be used in Ubuntu, windows and OSX?
Fat32? I have rull out NTFS as an option.
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WD My Passport can not be formatted on mac
Product: WD My Passport Ultra 1TB
Operating Systems: Mac & Linux
I recently used my WD Passport for a linux system. I formatted this drive in linux to ext4. Now I want to use this drive for my ...
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Accessing data on drive that was initialized as a GPT
I have a USB drive that only had a /dev/disk1 that I could mount by mount -t hfs /dev/disk1 /Volumes/usb on a Mac drive. For the life of me I could not get it mount or be read on Windows regardless of ...
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Recovering data from a hard drive which disappears from /dev upon reading data in a bad block
I'm attempting to recover as much data as possible from a failed 750 GB hard drive which is connected via a USB 3 drive enclosure.
The drive itself has over 1500 bad blocks, detected by badblocks on ...
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Are two partitions with HFS+ and exFAT more efficient or just one with exFAT for storing data?
I use Mac, Windows, and Linux(Ubuntu) computers, and one 1 TB external hard drive. I mainly use Mac, and don't want to use third party drivers. Is it more efficient to:
Use one partition for HFS(Mac ...
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External HDD - File created from OSX is not visible in OpenWrt (Linux)
I am using an external HDD as a media server. The HDD is formated as exFAT with GPT (from Windows).
I noticed that files created from OS X while the HDD was mounted on my Mac are not visible after ...
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Files corupted durring copy
While copying/downloading a large file (3+ GB) the checksusms aren't the same afterwards.
Methods attempted:
A patch cable transfer between two computers. (source sum was OK)
Download from Main site.
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Mount a HFSPlus disk with read/write permissions in Linux
I realise that this question is similar in nature to this question, but I'm hoping to specifically bring more attention to an additional problem in one of the comments of this answer to that question.
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Debugging ExtFS on OSX - works for 3 days then nothing?
I installed the trial of ExtFS 9.7.109 on OS X 10.10.3. It worked great for the first 3 days. But now my ext4 drives no longer show up.
Last thing that worked was copying data from an ext4 drive. ...
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How to encrypt all—or part—of a USB hard drive that can be accessed by both Linux and Mac OS X?
I bought a new USB Hard Drive that I want to use as a back up for my Linux (Ubuntu 14.04 LTS at the moment) and my Mac Mini (running Mac OS X 10.9). I can do this perfectly at the moment, but I want ...
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Recover data from linux from Mac with firewire?
I have debian linux 7.6.0 on an old macbook laptop, the screen broke. I don't have money to fix it so I was hoping to use the firewire port to connect and clone the hard drive so I can access the ...
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Input/output error in OS X but not Linux on NTFS external hard drive
My external hard drive contains a directory. On my Mac I can't see this folder, neither in Finder nor with ls -la. But I know that it exists, since there is no problem with it on Linux. Because I'm ...
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Consistent RAID 1 or equivalent solution across Windows, OS X, and Linux?
I just built a new computer containing a 256 GB SSD and two 1 TB Seagate hard drives. I'm trying to find a good solution for having the two 1 TB drives mirrored, and keeping this mirroring working ...
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Best file system to share between Linux, Mac, and Windows [duplicate]
I would like to put all my movies on an external harddrive so that I can watch them on any of my various computers (Mac, Linux, PC: all latest OSs, all 64-bit), and I would also like to be able to ...
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Filesystem compatible with GNU/Linux and Mac
Which filesystem is compatible with GNU/Linux and Mac OS? I want to be able to read/write from both GNU/Linux and Mac OS. For example I want to copy a file to my external hard-drive from GNU/Linux and ...
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Will HDD's permission settings work when plugged on another computer/OS?
I don't have means to test this but I'm on Windows 7 and I set one of my HDD's (entire drive) permission to Administrators.
If I plug it in another Windows 7 or Windows XP computer will the ...
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Untouchable disks via Disk Utility and GParted
I have what I think are hybrid GUID/MBR disks that I created by splitting already MBR/NTFS disks via GParted, leaving unallocated space, then creating HFS partitions within OS X from the unallocated ...
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Secure Hard Drive Erasure Revisited in OS X
So I have a Seagate 2TB bare drive in an external enclosure as my Time Machine backup drive. It has been acting up and giving SMART errors. I decided I should RMA or replace it before it dies ...