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Mac OS X partition type problem

As a 2 decades of MS-Windows user I have switched to Mac OS X a month ago. And my knowledge is not enough to fix my big problem which I encountered yesterday and my brand new MBPro is dead now. I ...
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Xubuntu installer not showing NTFS option

So, I wanted a part of my extended partition to be NTFS formatted to access my data from both Win 7 and Xubuntu OSes. Only problem, Xubuntu installer did not show the NTFS option when I was manual ...
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1answer
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Extended partition should have many filesystems

I need some related information on the following lines I found in an answer: A logical partition is a container for a filesystem (or an LVM volume or some swap space or a BSD partition or other ...
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0answers
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How long does it take for fls (from the Sleuth Kit) to run on a ntfs partition of 110 GiB (96% used)?

I have been running fls (from the Sleuth Kit) since last night, in verbose mode, hoping it will identify the files and directories I just deleted before running the program. sudo fls -f ntfs -d -r ...
3
votes
3answers
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Mount NTFS image file created using partimage

From an old disk which I don't have at hand, I have created a file named winxp.img using partimage. As the filename suggests, the partition contained Windows XP and was formatted with NTFS. (The ...
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What's the best tool chain or single tool to transform a NTFS to ext[n] filesystem?

I've decided to go Linux only, finally! This also means that I have a bunch of disks still under NTFS. I don't have spare space anywhere to transfer the files to and then just re-format the drive so ...