Issue with Boot Camp with APFS drive

I’m in internet recovery. I opoened disk utility to locate the APFS, and I did. But I don’t know how to run that command ON it. I closed Disk Utility and opened the terminal and ran that.

This is the result:

fsck usage: fsck [-fdnypq] [-1 number]

I think when I tried in single user mode it said something similar. But it doesn’t really do anything

I ran the command and a few others in that vein just so you'd see the outputs in case it helps.

Also, I don't know why I have so many disk images right now or what to do about them, but they weren't there before

-bash-3.2# diskutil list

/dev/disk0 (internal):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme 1.0 TB disk0

1: EFI EFI 314.6 MB disk0s1

2: Apple_APFS Container disk2 999.6 GB disk0s2

/dev/disk1 (disk image):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme +2.1 GB disk1

1: Apple_HFS OS X Base System 2.0 GB disk1s1

/dev/disk2 (synthesized):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: APFS Container Scheme - +999.6 GB disk2

Physical Store disk0s2

1: APFS Volume Macintosh HD 494.0 GB disk2s1

2: APFS Volume Preboot 21.8 MB disk2s2

3: APFS Volume Recovery 517.8 MB disk2s3

4: APFS Volume VM 3.2 GB disk2s4

/dev/disk3 (disk image):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: untitled +5.2 MB disk3

/dev/disk4 (disk image):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: untitled +524.3 KB 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 +2.1 MB disk7

/dev/disk8 (disk image):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: untitled +524.3 KB 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 +12.6 MB disk10

/dev/disk11 (disk image):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: untitled +4.2 MB disk11

/dev/disk12 (disk image):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: untitled +1.0 MB disk12

/dev/disk13 (disk image):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: untitled +2.1 MB disk13

/dev/disk14 (disk image):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: untitled +524.3 KB 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 +1.0 MB disk16

/dev/disk17 (disk image):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: untitled +6.3 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 +524.3 KB disk19

/dev/disk20 (disk image):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: untitled +2.1 MB disk20

-bash-3.2# fsck -f -y /dev/disk2

fsck usage: fsck [-fdnypq] [-l number]

-bash-3.2# fsck

** /dev/rdisk1s1

** Root file system

Executing fsck_hfs (version hfs-407.50.6).

** Checking non-journaled HFS Plus Volume.

The volume name is OS X Base System

** Checking extents overflow file.

** Checking catalog file.

** Checking multi-linked files.

** Checking catalog hierarchy.

** Checking extended attributes file.

** Checking volume bitmap.

** Checking volume information.

** The volume OS X Base System appears to be OK.

-bash-3.2# fsck -f -y /dev/disk1

fsck usage: fsck [-fdnypq] [-l number]

-bash-3.2#

Here's the output to that. It just tells me what each command does. so I tried it with -f -y, and also just with -y. Results for "fsck_apfs -y" and "fsck_apfs" were the same. When I used the "-f" it said "warning: option -f is not implemented, ignoring". And at the end it all said the disk couldn't be verified completely. Am I doing something wrong?

-bash-3.2# fsck_apfs

usage: fsck_apfs [-q | -n | -y] [-l] device

-l live fsck (lock down for verify-only)

-q quick check if the superblock and checkpoint superblock are valid.

-y always repair (answer "yes" to questions)

-n verify only (answer "no" to questions)

-bash-3.2# fsck_apfs -f -y /dev/disk2

warning: option -f is not implemented, ignoring

** Checking volume.

** Checking the container superblock.

** Checking the EFI jumpstart record.

** Checking the space manager.

** Checking the object map.

** Checking the APFS volume superblock.

** Checking the object map.

mount_apfs: mount: Input/output error

error: mount_apfs exit status 73

** The volume /dev/disk2 could not be verified completely.

-bash-3.2#

I have a Time Machine backup of my laptop. I last updated it two nights ago, but wouldn’t restoring from a Time Machine backup also bring back these errors? And my computer, I bought it in June 2017. I’m pretty sure High Sierra wasn’t out back then, right? So it probably came with Sierra.

Ok. When I get home I’ll check the original OS it shipped with and get back to you on that. How should I go about erasing the drive? Using Disk Utility’s “Erase” function on the drive? On the APFS? Should I erase it to an APFS format?

I checked the reinstall mac os and it’s High Sierra. I have a 500 GB external drive on hand. I’ve never installed an OS on an external drive? How should I do that and what error checks should I run on it?

Well I can partition this version of Mac OS on the external drive with no problems. So I just decided to proceed to erasing my internal drive, but whenever I try to do it the log says:

“Unmounting disk

Couldn’t open device.

Operation failed...”

Yes they are. As soon as Windows bolted up, the Boot Camp Assistant appeared and installed all of them. But after that was done, nothing about boot camp was anywhere in the start menu, control panel, task bar, “spotlight” search, nowhere.

I keep looking for it everywhere and I can’t find it. There’s just so much I can’t do... i can’t right click, scroll with the touch pad, use anything on the touch bar (volume, brightness, esc. button, etc.). Will having the boot camp manager fix these things for me? I also keep looking up what to do if the boot camp manager isn’t there and I can’t find anything useful!

Hey! Sorry, I didn’t have the opportunity to try this out earlier. But now I did and it worked, thank you very much! Just one more question before I close out this thread. Do you have any recommendations on where I could go to learn about all of this? About Terminal, Bash, and other stuff related to that. Thank you so much for your help.

Nothing really happens when i use this “fsck -fy /“

This exactly:

fsck usage: fsck [-fdnypq] [-1 number]