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Converting an existing 'Data' volume to APFS encrypted
Do not try to encrypt the startup APFS volumes using Disk Utility.
Instead Use System Settings > Privacy & Security > FileVault > Turn on.
This will encrypt the Macintosh HD - Data (or ...
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Is there a commandline switch for "ls" that reveals "firmlinks"
There is no switch for ls to provide the info, but the info is available via other means.
Howard Oakley, (as ever!) has a good writeup on the filesystem changes in Catalina. He covers firmlinks in ...
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Is formatting external drive with "APFS Encrypted" redundant for Time Machine with "Encrypt backups" turned ON
Time Machine changes APFS to APFS (Case-sensitive, Encrypted)
In answer to the title question: Yes, the original encryption is replaced and hence redundant.
With encrypted APFS, the whole drive or ...
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Is it at all possible for Big Sur to be booted from an HFS+ formatted volume?
No. BigSur filesystem is setup to require/rely on features of APFS. Interestingly enough though, bootable Bigsur system installers work formatted as HFS Extended Journaled.
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How to Time Machine Backup with Mac OS Extended Journaled instead of APFS
In addition to Kaizer Sozay's answer:
you do not have to make a backup on another machine. It's enough to put the following folders on the drive after formatting it with HFS+ (Mac OS Extended ...
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Can I use an APFS snapshot to generate a list of all files changed since an earlier point?
Unfortunately, using the command line to do APFS snapshots manually is quite a bit involved:
The program that issues the request to make the snapshot is required to have the com.apple.developer.vfs....
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Is there a way to convert OS X Mavericks from Journaling to APFS
Upgrading to High Sierra or newer will automatically cause conversation to APFS when installing to a SSD. My understanding is you probably want to upgrade to High Sierra before upgrading further. This ...
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How can i give the "free space" on my internal ssd to the APFS container, where macos is installed?
You have to first remove disk0s3 by entering the command given below.
diskutil erasevolume free none disk0s3
Next, add all the free space to disk0s2 by entering the command given below.
diskutil apfs ...
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Time Machine backups of Multiple Macs to external drive with APFS: Should I use separate containers, or one container with different volumes?
Multiple Time Machine (TM) volumes in a single container:
If you want strict control of size of TM volumes, then continue with multiple containers. But for flexibility it is allowed to have ...
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How can I backup just user data to an external drive that anyone can read?
Let’s see if we can address the issues and help you go forward. I’m going to address this in the order presented.
Time Machine on an “older” Mac. It’s not so much that the Mac is older, it’s the ...
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Does Time Machine support APFS?
As of Big Sur, macOS now supports Time Machine backups to APFS formatted drives! The TM backups with APFS are much faster than they were before. Good luck!
Per the macOS User Guide on Apple's ...
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How can I see how large each Time Machine backup is in APFS?
You can use the third-party tool BackupLoupe to find out what's taking up the most storage in your Time Machine backups.
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Enable APFS snapshots without enabling Time Machine backups
I'll mention the workaround I've employed:
Mount an external disk that I don't use anymore.
Set it up as the Time Machine disk.
Eject the disk, and never amount it again.
Profit.
Time Machine ...
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Extract an APFS disk image without mounting it
7-Zip can extract disk images, but release 22.00 or later is required to to extract APFS images.
7z provided by the Homebrew package p7zip currently does not support APFS images.
$ brew info p7zip | ...
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APFS-formatted macOS Monterey SSD got corrupted after attempting to Clone using Target Mode
Thanks to all who took the time to read all along. Finally I was able to almost completely recover the SSD with 930GB of data using "Disk Drill" from cleverfiles. Only 15 files were damaged ...
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Invalid fsroot tree, what it really means and file integrity?
The meaning of the file system check error message below:
error: inode_val: object (oid 0x3): invalid nchildren (-1)
is the following:
inode_val
Each object (file, directory, link, whatever) on your ...
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Linux messed up GUID Partition Table for APFS container on external drive
So I was able to access the drive as before just by changing its GUID back, by running
sudo sgdisk -g -t 2:7C3457EF-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC /dev/sdb
in Linux terminal.
I was then able to add the ...
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Which files are required on the root of an APFS partition?
.PKInstallSandboxManager: If it has much in it, you should be safe to remove the contents.
.Spotlight-V100: If this is consuming space and you don't want the file system indexed, disable indexing - ...
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Time machine restore to new external drive
Update: I have modified the first paragraph and added a section at the end.
This answer was accepted whilst limited to restoring your data, as in the question title. It now also covers associating the ...
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Why doesn't APFS come with the Journaled option?
The main benefit you get from journaling is protection against metadata corruption in case of crashes (metadata like directory entries, file names, timestamps etc). APFS has a solution for this ...
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How to enlarge a APFS container with free space before it?
To add space to APFS partition containing the 时间机器 volume, free space would have to occur after this partition. One possible solution would be to move this partition to occur immediately after the ...
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Is there any way to change location of APFS local snapshots?
As mentioned in the comments, a snapshot is fundamentally a part of your disk's filing system. You could think of it as a second file catalogue, pointing to the same data as your main catalogue where ...
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Inaccessible APFS Partition - no gpt scheme
I tried to verify and check below with more commands
[shogunhz@CyXs-MacBook-Pro ~ % diskutil verifyVolume disk4s1
Started file system verification on disk4s1 (Libraries)
Verifying file system
Volume ...
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Inaccessible APFS Partition - no gpt scheme
I suspect this is not because of any issue with the specified disk but because verifyDisk will not work on synthesized disks. This doesn't seem clear from the man page, but empirically it seems to be ...
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Why does APFS claim my filesystem is full when I'm only using 100/250GB?
I believe that the version of macOS I was on had a bug wherein it would refuse to free up space. I upgraded to 12.6.2 and I magically was gifted the expected 100GB back to me.
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How can I encrypt a Disk Utility RAID volume?
This is possible in Disk Utility by creating encrypted APFS volumes in the RAID's container disk.
Rough steps are:
Use Disk Utility's Raid Assistant to create the RAID (select the APFS option).
Disk ...
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Adding an ISO image to an APFS volume and booting it
Your various attempts at creating the right kind of "storage" for CentOS are unfortunately in vain. The basic premise of your endeavour is unfortunately incorrect: CentOS does not run ...
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Not able to delete a specific file in an APFS Time Machine backup
You can't delete backed-up files in Time Machine on APFS. You can read more about this here:
https://eclecticlight.co/2022/07/19/what-can-you-do-with-time-machine-backups-on-apfs/
What you can’t do
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Fusion drive on iMac model 17,1, Mojave 10.14 - APFS or HFS+ format for HDD?
Fusion drives on Mojave and later use APFS to define a logical volume group, so APFS is required for Fusion to work in your case; there is no support for heterogenous filesystems. On High Sierra and ...
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MacOS 12.16: dd with devices is all but useless? reading/writing to raw disk (APFS) fails with "permission denied" or "Invalid argument"
After posting as much information as I could find relevant, I discovered that the reason these devices cannot be copied is because MacOS "virtualizes" the AppleFileSystem disks into a "...
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