refusion a split fusion drive

Hi I split my fusion drive and im trying to refuse it in recovery mode on mojave OS with comand "diskutil resetFusion" but when I type "Yes" it says comand not found. Im folling this guide: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207584

iMac 27″, macOS 10.14

Posted on Oct 21, 2021 9:32 PM

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Oct 22, 2021 1:07 AM in response to Joshylonstoky

The reason why it's not resetting is because the system sees 3 drives mounted instead of 2... disk0 (SSD), disk1 (HDD), and disk3 which looks like another HDD but might just be an APFS container - unless you physically have 3 drives in the Mac.


To fix this, erase the drives so macOS only sees 2 drives - data must be backed up before doing this:


  1. Exit Terminal and go back to the main macOS Utilities screen
  2. Open Disk Utility
  3. To right of View button at the top, click the down-arrow
  4. Click Show All Devices in the popup menu. This shows physical drives and volumes/containers show up below them and indented to the right
  5. Click on the physical SSD
  6. Click Erase button
  7. Pick MacOS Extended (Journaled) and GUID (do NOT pick APFS)
  8. Repeat steps #5-7 with hard drive - only 2 drives should show up
  9. Quit Disk Utility and back to macOS Utilities screen
  10. Go back to Terminal
  11. Type diskutil resetFusion
  12. Type Yes when asked
  13. Quit Terminal
  14. Click Reinstall macOS and select the Macintosh HD drive

Oct 22, 2021 12:12 AM in response to Joshylonstoky

What is the mac model?

How did you split it? Did any of your drives failed?


See this info from macOS terminal for diskutil:

resetFusion

                For Fusion Drive machine hardware configurations, reset the disk devices in the machine to a factory-like state (one empty Fusion volume).  This command requires the machine to contain exactly one internal solid-state device (SSD) and one internal rotational device (HDD); if so, you are prompted, and if you confirm, both devices are (re)-partitioned with GPT maps and a Core Storage Fusion Drive volume is created.  No system soft-ware is installed and no user data is restored.  All data on the machine is lost, including any "extra" partitions (e.g. for Boot Camp or other "user" purposes). You generally must be booted from the Internet Recovery System (CMD-OPT-R) or from an externally-connected macOS boot disk (e.g. a USB drive), because you cannot erase a volume with a currently-running macOS.  Ownership of the affected disks is required.

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