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Disk Utility query

Due to an issue with Mail, I rebooted Catalina in Safe Mode to verify OS integrity using Disk Utility. After applying First Aid, only Macintosh HD - Data showed three errors but it's unclear to me whether they were corrected. Below is the First Aid process summary, and it seems to me as if the errors listed haven't been corrected. Should/can I leave it as is?


Verifying file system.


Volume could not be unmounted.


Using live mode.


Performing fsck_apfs -n -l -x /dev/rdisk1s1


Checking the container superblock.


Checking the EFI jumpstart record.


Checking the space manager.


Checking the space manager free queue trees.


Checking the object map.


Checking volume.


Checking the APFS volume superblock.


The volume Macintosh HD - Data was formatted by hfs_convert (945.200.129) and last modified by apfs_kext (1412.61.1).


Checking the object map.


Checking the snapshot metadata tree.


Checking the snapshot metadata.


Checking the extent ref tree.


error: Cross Check : ExtentRef physical extent (0x91dadec + 3) has kind APFS_KIND_UPDATE but was not referenced previously 


Checking the fsroot tree.


error: Cross Check : FSroot tree references extent (0x91dadec + 3) which is not present in the ExtentRef tree


error: Cross Check : Mismatch between extentref entry reference count (0) and calculated fsroot entry reference count (1) for extent (0x91dadec + 3)


Verifying allocated space.


The volume /dev/rdisk1s1 appears to be OK.


File system check exit code is 0.


Restoring the original state found as mounted.




Operation successful.

Posted on Dec 22, 2019 10:45 AM

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Posted on Dec 22, 2019 11:13 AM

Those errors are related to the APFS snapshots. They do not affect the disk nor the functionality of macOS. That is the reason why Disk Utility returned the OK result: The volume /dev/rdisk1s1 appears to be OK.

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