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Create a case-sensitive HFS boot disk
Authored by: jay2 on Feb 08, '05 02:18:34PM
i've set up two macs (both running 10.3.x) with case-sensitive boot disks by doing the following:
  1. use carbon copy cloner to make a bootable backup on a firewire disk
  2. boot from the backup
  3. open a terminal window and incant:
    sudo diskutil eraseVolume "Case-sensitive HFS+" "Macintosh HD" /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD
    (that's all on one line)
  4. restore from the backup to the newly formatted HD
cccloner makes it a piece of cake. i did this over a year ago, and have had no problems with case-sensitive hfs+.

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Create a case-sensitive HFS boot disk
Authored by: jay2 on Feb 08, '05 02:21:13PM

oops, lost a backslash in my incantation. in the command line invocation of diskutil, you need to escape the space in '/Volumes/Macintosh HD' with a backslash
(which i don't know how to make appear here -- sorry).



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Create a case-sensitive HFS boot disk
Authored by: sjonke on Feb 09, '05 01:59:10PM

Any reason I can't do this without booting from an external if I want to reformat an *external* drive with case-sensitive HFS+?, with intent of being able to boot from it (in particular, installing Darwin on it.)

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