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distinction between volume and partition (terminology)
What's the definition of, and distinction between, a volume and a partition?
Wikipedia notes that a partition is created before any files or directories are written to disk. But, then, in the next ...
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Mounting OSX hard-drive on linux
I believe the motherboard on my macbook died, so I'm trying to recover the information on the disk. I pulled the hard drive from the macbook and plugged it into one of my SATA ports on my Ubuntu ...
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Fat 32 partition recognized by Linux not by OS X why?
I used Gparted to create 3 partitions on an unencrypted external 2 GB hard drive:
A FAT32 system (0x0c).
A Ext4 system with Linux installed on (I did this after creating the partitions).
A HFS system ...
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Installing Linux alongside Mac + Windows AFTER Bootcamp
I'm looking to set up triple-booting on my Macbook Pro, running OSX, Windows 7, and something Linux (probably Ubuntu 14.04)
Ordinarily, I don't think this would be too hard, but most of what I've ...
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Restore whole OS X from damaged but yet somehow accessible HFS+ partition
Okay, here's my problem: my disk got damaged (most possibly by the power problems). Disk utility shows it in gray color and won't mount offering me to check and repair it. Needlessly to say it won't ...
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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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shrinking an hfs+ partition
I have a GPT partitioned disk with 2 HFS+ partitions. I am trying to shrink the first partition.
things I have tried so far:
use Disk Utility.app
error: "The partition cannot be resized. Try ...
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trying to install windows after ubuntu
Recently I have wiped out my macbook pro and reinstalled ubuntu on it.And now I want to install windows alongside so I can have dual boot.After doing some research online, I have created a partition ...
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FAT32 partition unusual storage usage on MacOS
I have Linux installed on a second partition on my MacBook Air M1 running MacOS Ventura. To share data between the two systems, I shrunk the system partition in MacOS, then booted into Linux and ...
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How can I fully backup Windows, Linux and various boot partitions of an external drive?
I have an external drive for my 2017 iMac with a Windows-to-go and Linux system installed on it. It took a lot of work to get this set up just the way I needed, and am trying to find a way to make ...
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Gray Progress Bar in Macbook Boot caused by Partition Fault
Here's my problem:
When I try to load my Macbook it shows the gray progress bar. It takes a while to fill the whole progress and after it Macbook just shuts down.
I tried to boot from a recovery ...
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How to use one external hard drive to back up Windows and Linux as well as macOS with Time Machine?
I have an external hard disk drive I use for all of my backups.
I created an NTFS partition that I backed up Windows 10 to.
Then I created an ext4 partition and backed up Linux Mint to that.
Now, I ...
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ext4 SD card formatted on Linux, and will not show on OSX
I formatted an SD Card as ext4 on my Debian machine. Before I formatted I deleted all partions, created a single partion, and write the changes.
I was able to mount the SD card on my Debian box and ...
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SD Card maintaining partition map after zero-ing out data
I have a stubborn SD card that I can't seem to update the partition map on. If I run diskutil list I get
/dev/disk2 (internal, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE ...
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How do I access a second paritition of a linux sd
I'm having trouble finding a useful answer about this. But basically I need to edit a file manually (because I broke networking). I pulled out the sd card of my raspberry pi and injected it into my ...
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