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Anyone know how Apple pulled off an in place filesystem upgrade ? Is the data copied to your upgrade laptop and back ?
by sandGorgon 10y ago
Anyone know how Apple pulled off an in place filesystem upgrade ? Is the data copied to your upgrade laptop and back ?
- djrogers 10y agoNo, nothing like that necessary. Data remains in the same spot, and during the conversion new metadata and file tables/pointers are created in APFS format. Then the volume is remounted using the new format, and the old hfs stuff goes bye-bye.