Ntfs-3g Dmg

NTFS-3G successfully creates DMG files from NTFS partition (even compressed DMG; 11 GB - 4GB); they can be restored with CopyCatX started from Tiger system on 2nd Intel Mac! Is there any chance that NTFS-3G could become THAT genius that even a restore with Disk Utility will succeed?? A WORD OF WARNING if you are considering using write mode with the built-in macOS NTFS driver. I added an entry to my /etc/fstab to enable this (LABEL=Stuff none ntfs rw,auto,nobrowse) and had constant problems with FS corruption. 100s of files and entire directories would sometimes disappear and the only way to fix it was to reboot into Windows and run CHKDSK /f on the volume.

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Restoring NTFS volume from DMG file with Disk Utility??

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Restoring NTFS volume from DMG file with Disk Utility?? I want to restore an NFTS DMG file within Disk Utility, but starting such procedure always ends up with error messages! ('Restore Failure / Could not validate sizes / This process is not allowed') (Last part translated from German, sorry) I have a special triple boot system: - Config: MacBookPro 5,2 17' (Feb 2009) with Leopard / Ubuntu 8.10 / WXP; rEFIt (on Leo) & GRUB (on Ubuntu) installed - 'WinClone' only works for stupidly standard 2-partition stuff of Boot Camp Leo & Win installations - Restore only possible with CopyCatX (CCX) run from Tiger booted, as CCX started on Leopard only restores to images, not physical drives... - Latest MacBookPros do not boot Tiger!, therefore awfully have to boot from 2nd Intel Mac in target mode... - NTFS-3G successfully creates DMG files from NTFS partition (even compressed DMG; 11 GB -> 4GB); they can be restored with CopyCatX started from Tiger system on 2nd Intel Mac! > Is there any chance that NTFS-3G could become THAT genius that even a restore with Disk Utility will succeed?? (Please, forget about arguments for VMWare or Parallels - I HAVE to run WXP for hardware flash reasons; also need natively booted Ubuntu for other hardware related reasons ;-) Thanks for considering... File comment: Screenshot from Disk Utility with error messages after restore started (admin pw entered) Disk_Utility_04.jpg [ 40.28 KiB \| Viewed 14251 times ]
Tue Apr 21, 2009 01:06
Joined: Sat Oct 06, 2007 09:24 Posts: 530	Re: Restoring NTFS volume from DMG file with Disk Utility?? I don't think it is possible for us to fix bugs in Disk Utility... I currently have no idea what we could possibly do to get this working properly. However, if you're able to mount the .dmg file containing your volume backup, you can bypass Disk Utility by using 'dd' from the command line to restore your backup.
Thu Apr 23, 2009 06:55
Re: Restoring NTFS volume from DMG file with Disk Utility?? I don't think it is possible for us to fix bugs in Disk Utility... I currently have no idea what we could possibly do to get this working properly. However, if you're able to mount the .dmg file containing your volume backup, you can bypass Disk Utility by using 'dd' from the command line to restore your backup. Thanks!. OK, I'll check it out with dd whether this is a bug of Disk Utility or a core system issue... (CarbonCopyCloner CCC can't do such, either, as it is using standard OS X terminal calls) Which dd command line parameters would you suggest for restoring the DMG file into disk0s4 with 11.8 Gi of size? (disk0s3 is the Linux Ubuntu partition) Here is my diskutil list: new-host:~ vk$ diskutil list /dev/disk0 #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: GUID_partition_scheme *298.1 Gi disk0 1: EFI 200.0 Mi disk0s1 2: Apple_HFS VK_Leo 280.0 Gi disk0s2 3: Microsoft Basic Data 6.0 Gi disk0s3 4: Microsoft Basic Data 11.8 Gi disk0s4
Thu Apr 23, 2009 07:58
Joined: Sat Oct 06, 2007 09:24 Posts: 530	Re: Restoring NTFS volume from DMG file with Disk Utility?? Provided that the backup also contains 11.8 GiB of data, first attach the backup disk image: hdiutil attach -nomount your_backup.dmg ...and make note of the /dev/diskXsY number assigned to the attached backup volume. Then, to copy all the data from your backup to the physical drive disk0s4 using a block size of 1 MiB: sudo dd if=/dev/rdiskXsY of=/dev/rdisk0s4 bs=1m ('X' and 'Y' in 'rdiskXsY' should be replaced with the numbers of your attached backup... also, using rdisk devices instead of disk devices means faster transfer times)
Thu Apr 23, 2009 08:10
Re: Restoring NTFS volume from DMG file with Disk Utility?? Provided that the backup also contains 11.8 GiB of data, first attach the backup disk image: hdiutil attach -nomount your_backup.dmg ...and make note of the /dev/diskXsY number assigned to the attached backup volume. Then, to copy all the data from your backup to the physical drive disk0s4 using a block size of 1 MiB: sudo dd if=/dev/rdiskXsY of=/dev/rdisk0s4 bs=1m ('X' and 'Y' in 'rdiskXsY' should be replaced with the numbers of your attached backup... also, using rdisk devices instead of disk devices means faster transfer times) Hi 'unsound', works! Just have to re-activate rEFIt afterwards, but this - more or less - was the solution. Thanks!
Thu Apr 23, 2009 21:32

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Ntfs-3g Dmg Software

To do so, open a Terminal window and do this: Then save the file with the usual Control-O, Enter, Control-X. Finally, unmount and remount (with Disk Utility) your Boot Camp partition. This creates an (invisible from OS X).ntfs-readonly file at the root of your Boot Camp volume, thus telling NTFS-3G to bypass this volume and let it be mounted. Yourshell$ hdiutil create -size 10M -fs NTFS-3G imagename.dmg Will create a 10MB read/write NTFS image We really do not have a lot to go on here except that you use Mac OS X (intel inferred since on the VBox forum) and you wish to convert a DMG image to a VDI image. I have used Q (Qemu for Mac) and it works in a round-a-bout way also.