I just tried to install Windows 10 using Boot Camp assistant. It failed.... possibly because I didn't put the Win ISO on a flash drive. Now my HD won't re-partition. I see that "Lonestar" helped someone else & was hoping I could get assistance too. Thanks
High Sierra 10.13.3
iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2017) (Fusion)
4.2 GHz Intel Core i7
32 GB 2400 MHz DDR4
Radeon Pro 575 4 GB
MacBook Pro 17, Mac OS X (10.4.10)
From this list
diskutil unmountDisk diskN
gpt add -i 4 -b 1738719208 -s 214805927 -t windows /dev/diskN
gpt -vv -r show /dev/diskN
diskutil repairDisk disk0
You have already run the first three commands, and run the last highlighted command.
I got up this morning & it was still "thinking" about repairing the HD so I restarted. Now I have a "Recovery HD" that is 110GB big 🙂. I think we joined the free space to the wrong partition. I just have to get rid of that now..... by the simplest means possible. Thanks again 🙂
SidiBombay wrote:
I got up this morning & it was still "thinking" about repairing the HD so I restarted. Now I have a "Recovery HD" that is 110GB big 🙂. I think we joined the free space to the wrong partition. I just have to get rid of that now..... by the simplest means possible. Thanks again 🙂
The 'Restart' has now caused a new issue. Do you have a Time Machine backup? If not, can you create one now? The Fusion drive needs to be rebuilt by erasing the underlying physical disks, after the TM backup and then restored.
I just tried to trash something on my Desktop & got this message.....
The operation can’t be completed because one or more required items can’t be found.
(Error code -43)
I use Superduper for my backups and am currently up-to-date. I don't have 10 hours to babysit my machine today so could you please tell me what's involved in "rebuilt by erasing the underlying physical disks, after the TM backup and then restored".
Thanks
I read the discussion & got a headache 🙂.
Absolutely everything to do with Terminal commands & disk allocation is Greek to me. I don't understand any of it & never will 😟
Can't I just re-format the HD in Disk Utility & restore from my backup?
I restarted. Now I can trash properly AND the Recovery HD icon/110GB volume has disappeared.
I don't have a split Fusion Drive, I don't think, as I can see both the 1TB HD and the 28GB Apple SSD in Techtool Pro.
diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_CoreStorage Macintosh HD 889.4 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 110.6 GB disk0s3
/dev/disk1 (internal):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme 28.0 GB disk1
1: EFI EFI 314.6 MB disk1s1
2: Apple_CoreStorage Macintosh HD 27.6 GB disk1s2
3: Apple_Boot Boot OS X 134.2 MB disk1s3
/dev/disk2 (internal, virtual):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: Apple_HFS iMacDad +916.0 GB disk2
Logical Volume on disk1s2, disk0s2
E94AAFEA-3935-4C9A-B230-C2DFBCBE4D78
Unencrypted Fusion Drive
/dev/disk3 (external, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk3
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk3s1
2: Apple_HFS SUPERDUPER - BU 999.8 GB disk3s2
I see it at disk0s3 🙂
Can't we simply merge disk0s2 and disk0s3 ....... look I'm doing "greek" 🙂 🙂
Merging a CS volume with a HFS volume does not work, and it will corrupt macOS.
If it is converted to Free Space, extending the CS volume is possible, but the Free Space must be inside the CS LVG, not outside the LVG.
If you have a TM backup, the commands I listed in Greek are fairly straightforward. 😉
Glad to see you have got the knack for alpha, beta, gamma.. we just need to get to omega, which is the extended version of OMG. Yes? Oui? Si? See?
Run diskutil list first. Pick the disk number for the 28GB disk (SSD) and the disk number for the 1TB (HDD). Substitute disk0 and disk1 in the steps as appropriate.
Step 4 requires you to look at the output of step 3 which provides the UUID.
Learning Greek by the substitution method. 😉. Alpha = a, Beta = b, ... 😎
After diskutil list I did step 1...... no go 😟
diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_CoreStorage Macintosh HD 889.4 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 110.6 GB disk0s3
/dev/disk1 (internal):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme 28.0 GB disk1
1: EFI EFI 314.6 MB disk1s1
2: Apple_CoreStorage Macintosh HD 27.6 GB disk1s2
3: Apple_Boot Boot OS X 134.2 MB disk1s3
/dev/disk2 (disk image):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme +2.1 GB disk2
1: Apple_HFS OS X Base System 2.0 GB disk2s1
/dev/disk3 (internal, virtual):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: Apple_HFS iMacDad +916.0 GB disk3
Logical Volume on disk1s2, disk0s2
E94AAFEA-3935-4C9A-B230-C2DFBCBE4D78
Unencrypted Fusion Drive
/dev/disk4 (disk image):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: untitled +5.2 MB disk4
/dev/disk5 (disk image):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: untitled +524.3 KB disk5
/dev/disk6 (disk image):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: untitled +524.3 KB disk6
/dev/disk7 (disk image):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: untitled +524.3 KB disk7
/dev/disk8 (disk image):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: untitled +2.1 MB disk8
/dev/disk9 (disk image):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: untitled +524.3 KB disk9
/dev/disk10 (disk image):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: untitled +524.3 KB disk10
/dev/disk11 (disk image):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: untitled +12.6 MB disk11
/dev/disk12 (disk image):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: untitled +2.1 MB disk12
/dev/disk13 (disk image):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: untitled +1.0 MB disk13
/dev/disk14 (disk image):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: untitled +2.1 MB disk14
/dev/disk15 (disk image):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: untitled +524.3 KB disk15
/dev/disk16 (disk image):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: untitled +524.3 KB disk16
/dev/disk17 (disk image):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: untitled +1.0 MB disk17
/dev/disk18 (disk image):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: untitled +6.3 MB disk18
/dev/disk19 (disk image):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: untitled +6.3 MB disk19
/dev/disk20 (disk image):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: untitled +524.3 KB disk20
/dev/disk21 (disk image):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: untitled +2.1 MB disk21
-bash-3.2# diskutil eraseDisk jhfs+ SSD disk1
Started erase on disk1
Unmounting disk
Error: -69877: Couldn't open device
Since it is an image, and I cannot copy/paste, I will just provide first parts of the UUID, which you will need to fill in completely.
diskutil cs deleteVolume E94AAFEA-...
diskutil cs delete 705F2012-...
(Fill in the parts after the "-").
Once these two are removed, try erasing the SSD and HDD.
So
diskutil cs deleteVolume E94AAFEA-3935-4C9A-B230-C2DFBCBE4D78
diskutil cs delete 705F2012-B222-4125-8243-830F32CC1DA3
diskutil eraseDisk jhfs+ SSD disk0 check correct disk#
diskutil eraseDisk jhfs+ HDD disk1
diskutil cs create macOS-LVG disk0s2 disk1s2 (please ensure SSD is first, otherwise you will have performance issues).
diskutil cs createVolumeUUIDjhfs+"Macintosh HD" 100% (the UUID must be manually entered and is generated in the previous step).
Then restore from backup ?
The result of my "in-at-the-deep-end" Greek lesson 🙂
Please let me know if I'm ok to restore from my backup.
Does the system software automatically go onto the SSD?
-bash-3.2# diskutil cs list
CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)
|
+-- Logical Volume Group 15D9C3F0-A18C-4804-BD50-3979EE199B47
=========================================================
Name: macOS-LVG
Status: Online
Size: 1027412078592 B (1.0 TB)
Free Space: 36864 B (36.9 KB)
|
+-< Physical Volume C8E35851-7F08-4652-86DC-ADA185477A12
| ----------------------------------------------------
| Index: 0
| Disk: disk1s2
| Status: Online
| Size: 27551166464 B (27.6 GB)
|
+-< Physical Volume DA227995-23FE-4C7E-BCB7-908BA60AAB42
| ----------------------------------------------------
| Index: 1
| Disk: disk0s2
| Status: Online
| Size: 999860912128 B (999.9 GB)
|
+-> Logical Volume Family DF24B7BB-6B25-421D-B46B-473AAF567864
----------------------------------------------------------
Encryption Type: None
|
+-> Logical Volume C4DA3678-F74E-44EE-940E-60CC3CBA31A5
---------------------------------------------------
Disk: disk3
Status: Online
Size (Total): 1026496397312 B (1.0 TB)
Revertible: No
LV Name: Macintosh HD
Volume Name: Macintosh HD
Content Hint: Apple_HFS
LVG Type: Fusion, Sparse
-bash-3.2#
SidiBombay wrote:
The result of my "in-at-the-deep-end" Greek lesson 🙂
Your Greek 101 course is complete. Aâž•.
SidiBombay wrote:
Does the system software automatically go onto the SSD?
The Restore will distribute files as necessary. You do not need to do anything manually, except the Restore.
SidiBombay wrote:
-bash-3.2# diskutil cs list
CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)
|
+-- Logical Volume Group 15D9C3F0-A18C-4804-BD50-3979EE199B47
=========================================================
Name: macOS-LVG
Status: Online
Size: 1027412078592 B (1.0 TB)
Free Space: 36864 B (36.9 KB)
|
+-< Physical Volume C8E35851-7F08-4652-86DC-ADA185477A12
| ----------------------------------------------------
| Index: 0
| Disk: disk1s2
| Status: Online
| Size: 27551166464 B (27.6 GB)
|
+-< Physical Volume DA227995-23FE-4C7E-BCB7-908BA60AAB42
| ----------------------------------------------------
| Index: 1
| Disk: disk0s2
| Status: Online
| Size: 999860912128 B (999.9 GB)
|
+-> Logical Volume Family DF24B7BB-6B25-421D-B46B-473AAF567864
----------------------------------------------------------
Encryption Type: None
|
+-> Logical Volume C4DA3678-F74E-44EE-940E-60CC3CBA31A5
---------------------------------------------------
Disk: disk3
Status: Online
Size (Total): 1026496397312 B (1.0 TB)
Revertible: No
LV Name: Macintosh HD
Volume Name: Macintosh HD
Content Hint: Apple_HFS
LVG Type: Fusion, Sparse
-bash-3.2#
Looks clean and you should have your full disk space back.
Thank you VERY much for your help..... needless to say I won't be bothering with Bootcamp again any time soon 🙂
If there's any way I can give you a "good review" anywhere, please pass on a link. And..... thanks for putting up with a Greek Noob 🙂
Failed Bootcamp HD partition
