Saturday, May 22, 2010

Mounting a FireWire disk in single usermode

I recently had to run fsck on my external FireWire drive. Here's how...

Reboot and hold option+s
Type /sbin/mount -uw
Mkdir /Volume/(Volume Name)
Type mount -t hfs /dev/disk1s(partition number)
/Volumes/(Volume Name)
Type /sbin/fyck /

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