I am trying to setup Boot Camp on my 16-inch MacBook Pro. Every time I run the Boot Camp Assistant I get the error, “You disk could not be partitioned.”
I have run first aid on the disk via Disk Utility, and turned off Time Machine per suggestions I found. I still get the error.
MacBook Pro with Touch Bar
You can delete snapshots individually using
diskutil apfs deletesnapshot
Usage: diskutil apfs deleteSnapshot|deleteVolumeSnapshot <apfsVolumeDisk>
-uuid <snapshotUUID> | -xid <snapshotXIDNumber> | -name <snapshotName>
where <apfsVolumeDisk> = APFS Volume DiskIdentifier
<snapshotUUID> = an APFS Snapshot UUID string (preferred)
<snapshotXIDNumber> = an APFS Snapshot ID Number in decimal
<snapshotName> = an APFS Snapshot Name (not mountpoint)
Remove the specified APFS Snapshot from the specified APFS Volume. The ability
to restore the state of the APFS Volume to that point in its evolution is lost.
The APFS Volume must be unlocked and mounted; the Snapshot must not be mounted.
Ownership of the affected disks is required.
Example: diskutil apfs deleteSnapshot disk5s1 -uuid <UUID>
diskutil apfs deleteSnapshot disk5s1 -name MySnap1
Yeah. I was hoping to avoid that. There’s almost a TB of data to backup and restore. But, seems like it might be the only way to resolve the issue.
Can you use Time Machine with a locally attached disk as the backup destination?
Yeah, that's the plan, it'll just take a while.
Excellent! Please remember to keep good backups.
See this example...
diskutil apfs listsnapshots /
Snapshots for disk1s2 (16 found)
|
+-- 0C06990C-D857-4329-88AD-7957A074EE6C
| Name: com.apple.TimeMachine.2020-10-19-170508.local
| XID: 112158
| Purgeable: Yes
| NOTE: This snapshot limits the minimum size of APFS Container disk1
|
+-- 17D0D072-B431-48F1-B340-1EC3BB181348
| Name: com.apple.TimeMachine.2020-10-19-200626.local
| XID: 113859
| Purgeable: Yes
|
+-- CC7F3500-90BF-4ACD-AB7E-017A397F4318
| Name: com.apple.TimeMachine.2020-10-19-222422.local
| XID: 114900
| Purgeable: Yes
|
+-- ECA98B2D-40DB-4C4B-8852-A53750AC75A1
| Name: com.apple.TimeMachine.2020-10-20-000658.local
| XID: 116178
| Purgeable: Yes
|
+-- 7C6BFCD8-F129-4E4F-872C-89B8ACE41286
| Name: com.apple.TimeMachine.2020-10-20-020051.local
| XID: 118081
| Purgeable: Yes
|
+-- 37195CFC-5F29-4541-828C-35D08A364BF8
| Name: com.apple.TimeMachine.2020-10-20-030750.local
| XID: 118650
| Purgeable: Yes
|
+-- 4ACF966D-F3B8-4D8A-8A1D-65FF1D1C03D4
| Name: com.apple.TimeMachine.2020-10-20-045958.local
| XID: 119785
| Purgeable: Yes
|
+-- D4E50D87-C91D-4160-9ADB-AE77F95E99D7
| Name: com.apple.TimeMachine.2020-10-20-060211.local
| XID: 120305
| Purgeable: Yes
|
+-- 9F3D9009-37CD-4483-8C76-E166DB37958B
| Name: com.apple.TimeMachine.2020-10-20-070036.local
| XID: 120810
| Purgeable: Yes
|
+-- 6393A0ED-283C-48E9-B009-57B30B1944F9
| Name: com.apple.TimeMachine.2020-10-20-080220.local
| XID: 121499
| Purgeable: Yes
|
+-- 1E683830-D66D-4C50-9192-7BD4A4BC0A3E
| Name: com.apple.TimeMachine.2020-10-20-090425.local
| XID: 122058
| Purgeable: Yes
|
+-- 14BE6D0D-7A9A-4264-9BE3-4DA384E1050F
| Name: com.apple.TimeMachine.2020-10-20-100044.local
| XID: 123594
| Purgeable: Yes
|
+-- 993A0097-7800-43C2-8ECD-9A9F093002A6
| Name: com.apple.TimeMachine.2020-10-20-110030.local
| XID: 124536
| Purgeable: Yes
|
+-- B0D4C381-D20F-4209-ACFE-E6B0274C04A6
| Name: com.apple.TimeMachine.2020-10-20-120308.local
| XID: 125670
| Purgeable: Yes
|
+-- 5C15C39D-2983-48C4-A3E9-E2D6B790CA71
| Name: com.apple.TimeMachine.2020-10-20-130418.local
| XID: 126711
| Purgeable: Yes
|
+-- 4749101E-9DEE-4D83-9102-8D09DA1777AE
Name: com.apple.TimeMachine.2020-10-20-140047.local
XID: 127880
Purgeable: Yes
** 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 was formatted by asr (1412.120.2) and last modified by apfs_kext (1412.141.1).
** Checking the object map.
** Checking the snapshot metadata tree.
** Checking the snapshot metadata.
** Checking the extent ref tree.
** Checking the fsroot tree.
** Checking volume.
** Checking the APFS volume superblock.
** The volume Macintosh HD - Data was formatted by asr (1412.120.2) and last modified by apfs_kext (1412.141.1).
** Checking the object map.
** Checking the snapshot metadata tree.
** Checking the snapshot metadata.
** Checking the extent ref tree.
** Checking the fsroot tree.
error: btn: invalid key order (25) oid 124179 / oxid 0 / level 1 / flags 0x0
previous key: 6f 72 69 67 64 69 73 70 6c 61 79 6e 61 6d 65 00 c4 ee 0e 00 00 00 00 40 21 00 63 6f 6d 2e 61 70 70 6c 65 2e 67 65 6e 73 74 6f 72
current key: dd ee 0e 00 00 00 00 40 0f 00 63 6f 6d 2e 61 70 70 6c 65 2e 6d 61 63 6c 00
next key: 0x60000000000eeeff
fsroot tree is invalid.
** The volume /dev/rdisk1 could not be verified completely.
Run
sudo fsck_apfs -n -l /dev/rdisk1
You can skip warning entries, if they are related.
When I run the terminal command it shows 25 disks. Seems like that could very well be a part of the problem.
Error setting up Boot Camp: Your disk could not be partitioned