There should always be an su or sudo command available, even if you are
root. To find out who you are logged in as you can do "whoami". The root
user account is turned off by default so maybe that is interfering with
what you're doing. If your account has admin rights, often times you can
do ro
hmmm. thats weird. sudo is an integral part of the command line utilities
included with OS X. then again, I am not on the latest OS X (I am still stuck
in Lion until I can get a newer machine).
-eric
On Sep 14, 2015, at 5:07 PM, Joe Quinn wrote:
> sorry to keep bringing this up, but I just tri
Look, to be honest, whatever you do now is risky.
I can help you reinstate a protective MBR, so you can boot back up OS X and
possibly use BootCamp assistant to blow away your Windows partition so you can
re-enlarge the OS X partition. Perhaps you can do it without using Terminal,
if you try i
sorry to keep bringing this up, but I just tried to go into recovery mode to
see what I could do to fix the partitions, but, I can't do anything with GDISK,
because there's no "sudo," or "su" commands in this version of terminal.
however, i didind that I was in root, oweing to the # at the direc
I care more about my mac side than my windows side as I have lots of apps there
I just hope blowing away bootcamp and reinstalling it will fix it. Anyone know
anything about GDisk? How can I get and use it?
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> On Sep 13, 2015, at 1:36 AM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote:
>
> Yes, rev
yes.
you use the command dd thus: dd if=/Volumes/Media/backups/backup.img of=/dev/sda
that will write all information back to the new drive in exact bit for bit
order.
-eric
On Sep 12, 2015, at 10:46 PM, Joe Quinn wrote:
> Then how do you restore it? Reverse it?
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>>
Yes, reverse it.
For extra points, defragment and zero the Windows partition, and use bzip2 to
compress the output of dd. That makes an even smaller file.
It’s a shame that all this can’t be easily automated, although to be fair Apple
has taken great care of Apple’s own side of the fence. And
apple has set september 30 for the release of OSX 10.11 the gold master
is out now!
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Then how do you restore it? Reverse it?
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> On Sep 13, 2015, at 12:25 AM, Eric Oyen wrote:
>
> well,
> if you use dd and you set the input file to be the first device for the HDD
> in /dev (the root device for the drive), then *everything* should be copied
> bit for bit. No
well,
if you use dd and you set the input file to be the first device for the HDD in
/dev (the root device for the drive), then *everything* should be copied bit
for bit. No missing data, no corruptions. In this case, your root drive would
probably be /dev/sda (with 1 thru x being the partitions
did i ask this before, i use dd, but then I'd still have same problem with the
corrupt partition issue, right? forgive the question if I asked it before.
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> On Sep 12, 2015, at 9:14 AM, Eric Oyen wrote:
>
> well, here is how the drive imaging works with Disk utility.
>
> yo
well, here is how the drive imaging works with Disk utility.
you can create a hard disk image, partition it and then copy the relevant files
to it. mind you, this is not exactly a clone. I haven't tried this particular
method myself, so I am not sure if it would work.
However, if you dd the ent
So if I Image my boot camp partition, then I deleted, reinstall it, and then
restore it, would it boot? I assume not because as you said it wouldn't copy
everything, only where there is data. I'm just confused. :-) I should just come
in and Match the start and sectors of the partition tables.
that would work. you can create a sparse image of the drive as an image file on
another volume. the beauty about this is that only those places that have data
will be copied. ANything without data will simply be ignored (as a zero space
allocation). THis generally only works if you create a spar
I've never played with partitions, before, or after the install of windows. I
don't know how to do it, and don't want to have to do it unless I absolutely
have to. I wish somebody could log onto my system over the Internet and
terminal and do what they need to do. :-)
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> On
Sort of. The image function handles Apple disk images, which include raw disk
images. The restoration (i.e., copying) of a source to a target, either of
which may be an image, is facilitated by ASR (Apple Software Restore) which
performs a block-by-block copy, except that it knows about filesy
there's an "image" function in disk utilitity. would that work or do anything?
it's in the tolbar with firstaid, restore, etc.
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> On Sep 11, 2015, at 8:35 AM, Eric Oyen wrote:
>
> I mentioned dd. Believe me, its a lot better than msbackup. the last time I
> used MS Backup,
I mentioned dd. Believe me, its a lot better than msbackup. the last time I
used MS Backup, it missed a number of files in my user settings directory. so,
these days, I backup the windows partition to an external drive as an image
file. I do so once per week and only keep 2 consecutive backups.
Someone mentioned "dd" as a backup utility in terminal. Ditto and rsync
can perform the same function. In google use "os10 backup" and one of the
names for tons of web sites for using them as backup.
On Thu, 10 Sep 2015, Joe Quinn wrote:
What are some good back up programs that will back
I do. thnk god most of what I in windows is backed up elsewhere.will I have to
reinstall everything, or just the windows side do you think? would erasing the
bootcamp partition fix the issues with the mismatched partittion?
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> On Sep 10, 2015, at 7:55 PM, Eric Oyen wrote:
>
btw, if you have the funds, go over to walmart and pick up a 1.5 TB USB 3.0
external drive. when you bring it home, put it on the system, repartition it
into 2 partitions: 1. OS X and 2. Windows NTFS. Then format those partitions.
Use dd to backup the entire boot drive to your newly created OS X
have you any way of saving your documents and settings for the windows OS under
bootcamp? if so, then simply using time machine to backup the OS X side of
things shouldn't be an issue. Then it would only be the issue of reinstalling
windows via boot camp.
-eric
On Sep 10, 2015, at 5:07 PM, Joe
I have a 500 GB hard drive, and I don't have one smaller. But again, if I did
this command wouldn't my partition problems still exist? I assume they will
because you say and exact copy of the hard drive. Thereby, leaving me at square
one. Maybe I should just delete my Boot Camp partition and t
the destination does need to be formatted. best to use ext2 or ext3 (extended
journaled filesystems) or you can use the FS type HPFS (which is what OS X
uses). It is highly recommended that you use a drive that is at least 30%
larger than the drive you are backing up from. THis utility is alread
I like that idea. but if i did a bit-for-bit copy of my hd, the partition
pooblems I have now would exist, correct? where do I get this utility? and,
does the destination have to be reformatted?
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> On Sep 10, 2015, at 4:49 PM, Eric Oyen wrote:
>
> there is a linux tool I li
there is a linux tool I like to use. It can image the entire device as an image
stored elsewhere. its called "dd". Its an old command line tool but very useful
nonetheless. If you specify the root level device to be copied, any and all
data on that device (such as the MBR/boot record, drive bitm
I love bootcamp backup, especially the price! but the thing is, if i backed it
up, reinstalled everything, and restored the bootcamp partition, will my
partition errors still exist?
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> On Sep 10, 2015, at 2:39 PM, jeff `greene wrote:
>
> Hi Joe, I recommend Carbon Copy Cloa
Because I think installing windows 10 messed up my partition for Boot Camp.
Because, when installing a full install of OS X, I now get this:
mismatch between the mbr and gpt partition maps is not supported
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> On Sep 10, 2015, at 2:39 PM, jeff `greene wrote:
>
> Hi Joe, I re
Hi Joe, I recommend Carbon Copy Cloaner to backup your macintosh hd.
It creates a bootable backup you can use to restore your mac. I think
the program costs around $49 but I think they have a trial period too.
As far as, bootcamp goes, the only one I know of is Paragon's Bootcamp
Backup I purchased
What are some good back up programs that will back up my Mac OS X drive as well
as the Boot Camp partition? I think I'm going to need it. :-)
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