Q: Can't format former Boot Camp partition

Ok, no problem but i would tell you this tomorrow.

I already launch the Time Machine transfert and it will take 12 hours...

À demain!

Baron MARTo wrote:

 

À demain!

Bonne Nuit! À demain!

If you have executed a 'full' restore rather than a Migration from TM, you may end up with the old disk configuration again, if the TM backup selected has the 'faulty' disk layout and it does an erase and restore.

Hello,

My diskutil list and diskutil cs list, to be complete.

Last login: Sat Nov  8 09:58:25 on console

iMac-de-Sebastien-MARTINEZ:~ Macintosh$ diskutil cs list

CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)

|

+-- Logical Volume Group FE01F854-51A7-441B-9BBE-B903BA3E5262

    =========================================================

    Name:         OSX-MacintoshLVG

    Status:       Online

    Size:         3120721960960 B (3.1 TB)

    Free Space:   0 B (0 B)

    |

    +-< Physical Volume D4097F0C-E8B6-4457-8764-76D78EEB4A96

    |   ----------------------------------------------------

    |   Index:    0

    |   Disk:     disk0s2

    |   Status:   Online

    |   Size:     120988852224 B (121.0 GB)

    |

    +-< Physical Volume 3DDE5754-7274-4D58-AED2-EF28CC6A28AF

    |   ----------------------------------------------------

    |   Index:    1

    |   Disk:     disk1s2

    |   Status:   Online

    |   Size:     2999733108736 B (3.0 TB)

    |

    +-> Logical Volume Family 433CF0FC-85A1-4316-A0D0-701590C503F7

        ----------------------------------------------------------

        Encryption Status:       Unlocked

        Encryption Type:         None

        Conversion Status:       NoConversion

        Conversion Direction:    -none-

        Has Encrypted Extents:   No

        Fully Secure:            No

        Passphrase Required:     No

        |

        +-> Logical Volume 7D2AB070-B558-4788-BD0F-ECD835245C2C

            ---------------------------------------------------

            Disk:                  disk2

            Status:                Online

            Size (Total):          3114866704384 B (3.1 TB)

            Conversion Progress:   -none-

            Revertible:            No

            LV Name:               Macintosh HD

            Volume Name:           Macintosh HD

            Content Hint:          Apple_HFS

iMac-de-Sebastien-MARTINEZ:~ Macintosh$

  [Restauré]

Last login: Sun Nov  9 09:39:41 on ttys000

iMac-de-Sebastien-MARTINEZ:~ Macintosh$ diskutil list

/dev/disk0

   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *121.3 GB   disk0

   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1

   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         121.0 GB   disk0s2

   3:                 Apple_Boot Boot OS X               134.2 MB   disk0s3

/dev/disk1

   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *3.0 TB     disk1

   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk1s1

   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         3.0 TB     disk1s2

   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.1 MB   disk1s3

/dev/disk2

   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

   0:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD           *3.1 TB     disk2

                                 Logical Volume on disk0s2, disk1s2

                                 7D2AB070-B558-4788-BD0F-ECD835245C2C

                                Unencrypted Fusion Drive

Baron MARTo wrote:

 

My diskutil list and diskutil cs list, to be complete.

 

Is everything working the way you want it? Are there any other issues that you are running into?

Stay impossible for me to install Windows, i create a USB Key, the partition look ok but when i 'am going to install and after formatting the bootcamp disk, i have a message saying than it's impossible to create the system files on the disk.

I think may be there is a problem is my Windows iso but it's strange, i install it before on my older iMac Core2Duo without any problem.

To finish, i attempt today three time to install it, the first time i create the Bootcamp partition, the Mac take 1 hour to create it, very strange...

This is a known issue with 3TB fusion drives.

Can you post the output of the same commands

diskutil list

diskutil cs list

sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0

sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk1

sudo fdisk /dev/disk0

sudo fdisk /dev/disk1

I suspect the BCA is failing to create the correct MBR.

This is a known issue with 3TB fusion drives; What a joke!

I read your message after deleting my Bootcamp drive. Here you'll can see the commands that you asked me:

diskutil list

/dev/disk0

   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *121.3 GB   disk0

   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1

   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         121.0 GB   disk0s2

   3:                 Apple_Boot Boot OS X               134.2 MB   disk0s3

/dev/disk1

   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *3.0 TB     disk1

   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk1s1

   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         2.2 TB     disk1s2

   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.1 MB   disk1s7

   4:          Apple_CoreStorage                         801.4 GB   disk1s5

   5:                 Apple_Boot Boot OS X               134.2 MB   disk1s6

/dev/disk2

   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

   0:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD           *3.1 TB     disk2

                                 Logical Volume on disk0s2, disk1s2, ...

                                 7D2AB070-B558-4788-BD0F-ECD835245C2C

                                 Unencrypted Fusion Drive

/dev/disk3

   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *2.0 TB     disk3

   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk3s1

   2:                  Apple_HFS Time Machine            2.0 TB     disk3s2

/dev/disk4

   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *8.0 GB     disk4

   1:                 DOS_FAT_32 WININSTALL              8.0 GB     disk4s1

/dev/disk5

   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *2.0 TB     disk5

   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk5s1

   2:                  Apple_HFS Archives                2.0 TB     disk5s2

iMac-de-Sebastien-MARTINEZ:~ Macintosh$ diskutil cs list

CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)

|

+-- Logical Volume Group FE01F854-51A7-441B-9BBE-B903BA3E5262

    =========================================================

    Name:         OSX-MacintoshLVG

    Status:       Online

    Size:         3120587710464 B (3.1 TB)

    Free Space:   94208 B (94.2 KB)

    |

    +-< Physical Volume D4097F0C-E8B6-4457-8764-76D78EEB4A96

    |   ----------------------------------------------------

    |   Index:    0

    |   Disk:     disk0s2

    |   Status:   Online

    |   Size:     120988852224 B (121.0 GB)

    |

    +-< Physical Volume 3DDE5754-7274-4D58-AED2-EF28CC6A28AF

    |   ----------------------------------------------------

    |   Index:    1

    |   Disk:     disk1s2

    |   Status:   Online

    |   Size:     2198162292736 B (2.2 TB)

    |

    +-< Physical Volume 272FA37E-4CFD-4B2A-853B-6F901149E844

    |   ----------------------------------------------------

    |   Index:    2

    |   Disk:     disk1s5

    |   Status:   Online

    |   Size:     801436565504 B (801.4 GB)

    |

    +-> Logical Volume Family 433CF0FC-85A1-4316-A0D0-701590C503F7

        ----------------------------------------------------------

        Encryption Status:       Unlocked

        Encryption Type:         None

        Conversion Status:       NoConversion

        Conversion Direction:    -none-

        Has Encrypted Extents:   No

        Fully Secure:            No

        Passphrase Required:     No

        |

        +-> Logical Volume 7D2AB070-B558-4788-BD0F-ECD835245C2C

            ---------------------------------------------------

            Disk:                  disk2

            Status:                Online

            Size (Total):          3114447011840 B (3.1 TB)

            Conversion Progress:   -none-

            Revertible:            No

            LV Name:               Macintosh HD

            Volume Name:           Macintosh HD

            Content Hint:          Apple_HFS

sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0

WARNING: Improper use of the sudo command could lead to data loss

or the deletion of important system files. Please double-check your

typing when using sudo. Type "man sudo" for more information.

To proceed, enter your password, or type Ctrl-C to abort.

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gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=121332826112; sectorsize=512; blocks=236978176

gpt show: /dev/disk0: PMBR at sector 0

gpt show: /dev/disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1

gpt show: /dev/disk0: Sec GPT at sector 236978175

      start       size  index  contents

          0          1         PMBR

          1          1         Pri GPT header

          2         32         Pri GPT table

         34          6        

         40     409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B

     409640  236306352      2  GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

  236715992     262144      3  GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

  236978136          7        

  236978143         32         Sec GPT table

  236978175          1         Sec GPT header

sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk1

gpt show: /dev/disk1: mediasize=3000592982016; sectorsize=512; blocks=5860533168

gpt show: /dev/disk1: PMBR at sector 0

gpt show: /dev/disk1: Pri GPT at sector 1

gpt show: /dev/disk1: Sec GPT at sector 5860533167

       start        size  index  contents

           0           1         PMBR

           1           1         Pri GPT header

           2          32         Pri GPT table

          34           6        

          40      409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B

      409640  4293285728      2  GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

  4293695368     1269760      3  GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

  4294965128          64        

  4294965192  1565305792      4  GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

  5860270984      262144      5  GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

  5860533128           7        

  5860533135          32         Sec GPT table

  5860533167           1         Sec GPT header

sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk1

gpt show: /dev/disk1: mediasize=3000592982016; sectorsize=512; blocks=5860533168

gpt show: /dev/disk1: PMBR at sector 0

gpt show: /dev/disk1: Pri GPT at sector 1

gpt show: /dev/disk1: Sec GPT at sector 5860533167

       start        size  index  contents

           0           1         PMBR

           1           1         Pri GPT header

           2          32         Pri GPT table

          34           6        

          40      409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B

      409640  4293285728      2  GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

  4293695368     1269760      3  GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

  4294965128          64        

  4294965192  1565305792      4  GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

  5860270984      262144      5  GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

  5860533128           7        

  5860533135          32         Sec GPT table

  5860533167           1         Sec GPT header

iMac-de-Sebastien-MARTINEZ:~ Macintosh$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk0

Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 14751/255/63 [236978176 sectors]

Signature: 0xAA55

         Starting       Ending

#: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [     start -       size]

------------------------------------------------------------------------

1: EE 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [         1 -  236978175] <Unknown ID>

2: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused     

3: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused     

4: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused

sudo fdisk /dev/disk0

Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 14751/255/63 [236978176 sectors]

Signature: 0xAA55

         Starting       Ending

#: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [     start -       size]

------------------------------------------------------------------------

1: EE 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [         1 -  236978175] <Unknown ID>

2: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused     

3: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused     

4: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused     

iMac-de-Sebastien-MARTINEZ:~ Macintosh$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk1

Disk: /dev/disk1 geometry: 97451/255/63 [1565565872 sectors]

Signature: 0xAA55

         Starting       Ending

#: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [     start -       size]

------------------------------------------------------------------------

1: EE 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [         1 - 4294967294] <Unknown ID>

2: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused     

3: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused     

4: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused     

There two problems now.

1. The CS resizeStack command is failing.

2. If the Bootcamp partition is not within the first 2TB of the HDD, the MBR will not be created either.

The only option I can see is use the resizeStack manually and create a partition with 2TB an manually create a Hybrid MBR to match. Let em know if that is what you like to try and I can post the commands here.

This is the help entry for the undocumented command.

diskutil cs resizeStack

Usage:  diskutil coreStorage resizeStack

        lvUUID|MountPoint|DiskIdentifier|DeviceNode [pvUUID] size

        [part1Format part1Name part1Size part2Format part2Name part2Size

         part3Format part3Name part3Size ...]

Resize both a logical volume and one of its underlying physical volumes in a

single operation. A single physical volume is always chosen for the underlying

shrink or grow, even if the logical volume's logical volume group is backed by

more than one physical volume. If you do not specify a particular physical

volume, then one is chosen for you. Note that if this is a grow operation,

this verb is limited by the physical volume's partition's room to grow.

Specifying zero as the size asks for an "automatic" grow-to-fill operation.

If this is a shrink operation, you can optionally request that new partitions

be created in the newly-formed free space gap in the partition map.

Again, note that this only resizes one of the underlying physical volumes; if

you need more sophistication in managing your topology, you should use the

separate physical and logical volume resize verbs.

Example: diskutil coreStorage resizeStack

         11111111-2222-3333-4444-555555555555 10g JHFS+ New 1g

OK, i need to read more time your post, i don't understand everything (i told you before, new with terminal + English conversation).

Tonight (for me), i don't have many time to be in front of my computer, or may be in two hours, i dont now yet.

If not, i read you again tomorrow with my total attention.

I have 2 questions:

1. The CS resizeStack command is failing.

Huuuum.... Why?

2. If the Bootcamp partition is not within the first 2TB of the HDD, the MBR will not be created either.

I dont now what is the MBR but i thin the bootcamp partition was after the 2 first To in the HD.

Thanks for your help.

"Resize both a logical volume and one of its underlying physical volumes in a

single operation. A single physical volume is always chosen for the underlying

shrink or grow, even if the logical volume's logical volume group is backed by

more than one physical volume. If you do not specify a particular physical

volume, then one is chosen for you. Note that if this is a grow operation,

this verb is limited by the physical volume's partition's room to grow.

Specifying zero as the size asks for an "automatic" grow-to-fill operation.

If this is a shrink operation, you can optionally request that new partitions

be created in the newly-formed free space gap in the partition map.

Again, note that this only resizes one of the underlying physical volumes; if

you need more sophistication in managing your topology, you should use the

separate physical and logical volume resize verbs.

Example: diskutil coreStorage resizeStack

         11111111-2222-3333-4444-555555555555 10g JHFS+ New 1g"

Ok, i confirm, i don't understand.

You ask if i need more sophistication to manage my topology, i just want 200 or 250 Gigas under the Win7 system to play two or three strategic games, nothing more.

Give me hope.

The Bootcamp implementation will try and create a partition only on the HDD, not the SSD.

The MBR is what you see when you run the Fdisk command. The GUID Partition table is what you see when you run the gpt command. For Bootcamp to work, both need to match with each other. The MBR uses 32-bit numbers and cannot work with disks larger than 2TB.

Your HDD is a 3Tb disk.

/dev/disk1

   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *3.0 TB     disk1

   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk1s1

   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         2.2 TB     disk1s2

   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.1 MB   disk1s7

   4:          Apple_CoreStorage                         801.4 GB   disk1s5

   5:                 Apple_Boot Boot OS X               134.2 MB   disk1s6

This is from your diskutil list output. Bootcamp Assistant should have created a disk1s2 of the size you wanted out of the 3TB disk and put the remainder in the Macintosh HD. It did start the work by creating disk1s5 and put it in the Macintosh HD volume, but it failed to create the BC volume after the EFI entry. Notice the numbering gaps in disk1s1, disk1s2, disk1s5, disk1s6, disk1s7 and there is no disk1s3 or disk1s4.

This is what it should look like if it worked correctly.

/dev/disk1

   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *3.0 TB     disk1

   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk1s1

   2:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                250.0 GB   disk1s2      

   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.1 MB   disk1s3

   4:          Apple_CoreStorage                        2749.9 GB   disk1s4

   5:                 Apple_Boot Boot OS X               134.2 MB   disk1s5

OR

/dev/disk1

   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *3.0 TB     disk1

   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk1s1

   2:       Apple_CoreStorage                            1750.0 GB  disk1s2 

   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.1 MB   disk1s3

   4:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                250.0 GB   disk1s4      

   5:          Apple_CoreStorage                        1000.1 GB   disk1s5

   6:                 Apple_Boot Boot OS X               134.2 MB   disk1s6

The Fdisk output should have four (4) entries, which should have EFI, CoreStorage, Recovery HD, Bootcamp.

On one of my Mac mini machines, I have built a custom installation with Windows on the SSD.

diskutil list

/dev/disk0

   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *256.1 GB   disk0

   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1

   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         128.0 GB   disk0s2

   3:                 Apple_Boot Boot OS X               134.2 MB   disk0s3

   4:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                127.7 GB   disk0s4

/dev/disk1

   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk1

   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk1s1

   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         999.3 GB   disk1s2

   3:                 Apple_Boot Boot OS X               650.0 MB   disk1s3

/dev/disk2

   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

   0:                  Apple_HFS OSX-FusionHD           *1.1 TB     disk2

diskutil cs list

CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)

|

+-- Logical Volume Group DF140929-90E7-48E1-AC3D-C9C75BA88D1D

    =========================================================

    Name:         OSX-FusionHD

    Status:       Online

    Size:         1127375384576 B (1.1 TB)

    Free Space:   69632 B (69.6 KB)

    |

    +-< Physical Volume C856A74C-EB57-4D1F-8223-0A22215218ED

    |   ----------------------------------------------------

    |   Index:    0

    |   Disk:     disk0s2

    |   Status:   Online

    |   Size:     128030257152 B (128.0 GB)

    |

    +-< Physical Volume 80D91A14-CCC9-47B1-B071-B9ADFF23924F

    |   ----------------------------------------------------

    |   Index:    1

    |   Disk:     disk1s2

    |   Status:   Online

    |   Size:     999345127424 B (999.3 GB)

    |

    +-> Logical Volume Family 019D610F-21AC-4B54-AB0A-6D5F90D520A7

        ----------------------------------------------------------

        Encryption Status:       Unlocked

        Encryption Type:         None

        Conversion Status:       NoConversion

        Conversion Direction:    -none-

        Has Encrypted Extents:   No

        Fully Secure:            No

        Passphrase Required:     No

        |

        +-> Logical Volume D9DC0F70-38C7-4AE6-BAC4-CFBE0F8D4F68

            ---------------------------------------------------

            Disk:                  disk2

            Status:                Online

            Size (Total):          1118844862464 B (1.1 TB)

            Conversion Progress:   -none-

            Revertible:            No

            LV Name:               OSX-FusionHD

            Volume Name:           OSX-FusionHD

            Content Hint:          Apple_HFS

Ok, so what can i do?

Can you explain to me with the differents steps like you did it before?

PS: I read the rules about the points of the profile, i can create a new discussion for you because here i can't achieve the discussion to give you a note!

What a pity i don't now that and understand it before...

We can leave this discussion. If you can post a new thread with the output of the following commands

diskutil list

diskutil cs list

sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0

sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk1

sudo fdisk  /dev/disk0

sudo fdisk /dev/disk1

Choose an appropriate title (in French, if it makes it easier for you).

First we can try the BC method of creating the partition, but if it fails, we may need to start by deleting all partitions, and start with two base disks and create what we need for both Bootcamp and OS X to work.

Ok, let's go here:

Partition BootCap on DD 3To Fusion Drive: A methode