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I was trying to read an exfat file system in linux and removed the original flag of lba.then remembered I had to install exfat-utils. The drive is still exfat but now will not mount to OSx mountain lion, when looking through diskutility I can see the hdd but the partition will not mount and I can not perform a verify or repair on the drive or partition. The hdd is external. Went back into my linux vm and managed to set the flag back to lba, unfortunately no mount in mac. Also I noticed in diskutility the info for the partition says linux but for the hdd info all is available.
Cannot back up the data via shares, linux or mac, there is over 600GB of data, art work, music, docs etc and it is all important. Also have my fiancees data on there too (you guessed it, this was a manual backup disk)
Q's: how can I resolve without erasing data? How can I back up without erasing? If I can back up all data I can then erase in mac and set the partition table appropriately.
Hi Guys, thank you for your continuing support, unfortunately I cannot boot to a live Linux CD on my machine, I've shutdown and booted holding 'C' unfortunately no go. – Russell Clarke – 2013-10-15T16:26:34.203
Rod. S, You are right I am on VM and df shows the drive in the output however without being able to boot from the live Linux I cannot get the fdisk output you require. Do either of you have a possible solution from within the VM or direct from the Mac host?
I will retry using the $ as neglected to do this, will provide an update tomorrow.
Thanks again. – Russell Clarke – 2013-10-15T16:30:15.910
Disk /dev/sdb1: 2000.4 GB, 2000398932992 bytes 245 heads, 52 sectors/track, 306674 cylinders, total 3907029166 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0xf4f4f4f4
This doesn't look like a partition table Probably you selected the wrong device.
/dev/sdb1p1 ? 4109694196 8219388391 2054847098 f4 SpeedStore – Russell Clarke – 2013-10-16T10:48:35.680
dosfsck 3.0.14 (23 Jan 2023) dosfsck 3.0.14, 23 Jan 2023, FAT32, LFN Logical sector size is zero. – Russell Clarke – 2013-10-16T10:50:37.707
When running the command sudo dosfsck -w -r -l -a -v -t /dev/sd'inserted correct value here' – Russell Clarke – 2013-10-16T10:51:28.617