OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard no longer mounting an external USB drive
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Problem
I have a 1TB generic external hard drive containing a single HFS partition. I originally formatted this using Disk Utility and it worked fine. Now, for some reason, it's not auto-mounting when I start up. Using at the command line gives the following error: ... but if I use the command it works fin…
Error Output
$ sudo mount /dev/disk1s2 /Volumes/Test /dev/disk1s2 on /Volumes/Test: Incorrect super block.
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Fix for: OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard no longer mounting an external USB drive
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It looks like the problem was the partition table. The filesystem was intact, but the HFS+ partition on the external drive was mistakenly flagged as instead of . I used the GPT fdisk utility to change its type back to HFS+, and it immediately appear…
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