How can I repair a file vault disk in El Capitan?

I had to force shutdown my Macbook recently and so I opened Disk Utility to see if everything was okay. I'm running up-to-date El Capitan with a FileVault encrypted drive. Mid 2014 Macbook Pro purchased February 2015.


Running "First Aid" on the outer Apple SSD item appears to be okay. It's when I run "First Aid" with Macintosh HD highlighted tells me that something is wrong and that it needs to be repaired, but there is no repair button. Subsequent runs of "First Aid" keep showing that there's an issue, so it doesn't appear to be repairing during First Aid.


I tried booting with Command + R to repair the disk but it would only let me apply "First Aid" to the Apple SSD, not the Macintosh HD. It said Macintosh HD was not mounted. I imagine that's because it's encrypted with FileVault but I couldn't find how to tell it to decrypt or mount the drive to take a look at it.


How can I run a repair on the disk? Should I even bother?


Thanks!


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MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X El Capitan (10.11.1), Mid 2014

Posted on Dec 1, 2015 1:18 PM

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Feb 4, 2016 6:34 AM in response to morsalmarzur215

As I got this problem also I searched for some time till I found an option how to unlock drives in this new terrible tool. I don't know how Apple could have done this...


Anyway, to unlock a drive in 10.11 you got to select the locked drive and then open the menu bar "Ablage->Entsperren". I don't know the exactly english naming for it but it shall be like "Tray / Shelf -> Unlock".


Hope this helps for future people looking for an solution.

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