Updating boot support partitions for the volume as required, how?.

IMac with 10.7.3 and Seagate GoHlex 2TB external drive. Using the disk utility why is was not backing up.The Seagate is now asking the question "Updating boot support partitions for the volume as required". The verify disk permissions and repair disk permissions buttons are not active. My reference "The missing manual" does not cover this challenge. Your help would be appreciated.

iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)

Posted on May 4, 2012 11:38 AM

16 replies

Tlll33

Level 1

5 points

Aug 24, 2014 1:34 AM in response to Sandra Hall

I've had a similar problem.

I left the process running for about 36 hours, then next time I looked, Disk utility had quit and the external drive with the problem had mounted correctly... I had to start the process a few times though, and checked with process viewer that the fsck process is being used with a lot of cpu...

Hope that helps.

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