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How does one change the UUID of a Volume on Mac OS X to a SPECIFIED value?

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Mar 15, 20268083 views
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This is similar to the question asked here: How does one change the UUID of a Volume on Mac OS X 10.6? Only difference is I want to change it to a specific value, not a random one. The hfs.util only seems to do random. I considered modifying the hfs.util source to allow me to specify values. As I w…

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47: #include <hfs_fsctl.h>

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I tackled this. I downloaded the source for , made the changes you mentioned (so that it could compile), re-enabled the UUID functionality (like -s which is disabled in the current source), and added a new command (-S which is used to specify a UUID…

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