Thursday, July 21, 2011

Remount a hfs partition read-write on a mac

To remount a partition read-write on linux you would use:
mount -o remount,rw /dev/disk /mnt/point
On a mac the equivalent is:
mount -u -w /dev/disk /mnt/point
In single user mode to get a writable root:
mount -uw /
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3 comments:

  1. GGMarch 2, 2012 at 4:25 AM

    Thanks :) did not get the -u in mac

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  2. UnknownAugust 5, 2012 at 2:52 PM

    fsck_hfs -fyr /dev/diskXsY

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  3. GAugust 8, 2012 at 6:48 PM

    Umm...no. Suggest you read the mount and fsck_hfs man pages.

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