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Disable automatic fsck_exfat on dirty volume mount in Mac OSX

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Mar 15, 202611836 views
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I've several large hard disks formatted in exFAT to keep clean compatibility between Win7/Bootcamp and Snow Leopard. Here's the problem: needs something like 6-8gb of RAM to complete on a large disk. (windows' chkdsk works fine, btw). If OSX detects a volume as dirty, it appears to automatically tr…

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fsck_exfat

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Fix for: Disable automatic fsck_exfat on dirty volume mount in Mac OSX

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Disclaimer: I have no way to test it properly, but the following might give you some success. Disable SIP: https://stackoverflow.com/a/32910408/619961 Enable SIP Background idea: After searching the XNU kernel code for useful references of how Apple…

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