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Restoring a disk drive from an image backup on an OS X system

I needed to restore an external USB-connected Toshiba disk drive from an image created with Disk Utility on a MacBook Pro running the OS X operating system. With the external disk drive attached, a diskutil command, diskutil list, showed the following:

$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            499.4 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
/dev/disk2
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *13.8 MB    disk2
   1:                  Apple_HFS C_PGP2FV_B_A0           13.8 MB    disk2s1
/dev/disk3
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB   disk3
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk3s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS TOSHIBA EXT             499.8 GB   disk3s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Boot OS X               134.2 MB   disk3s3
$

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Thu, Jul 21, 2016 10:54 pm