I need to have writable access to the file system in recovery mode, but I always get the error
mount_apfs: volume could not be mounted: Permission denied.
I am aware of others who solved it like this: Read-only file system" with SIP disabled in macOS Catalina
i.e.:
start in recovery mode (Cmd-R at startup)
open terminal and disable SIP with csrutil disable
reboot into single user mode (Cmd-S at startup)
check SIP is disabled with csrutil status
try to mount the volumes with read/write:
sudo mount -uw /
sudo mount -uw /System/Volumes/Data
Neither of the two volumes can be mounted, I always get permission denied even with SIP disabled.
Interestingly, even if I boot the Mac from an external SSD (in this case an old Sierra installation) I cannot mount the disk as read/write.
Any further suggestions?
The problem in this case was a defect SSD, which switched into readonly mode after only 36 TB written, despite having a design of 1200 TBW.
Unfortunately, MacOS did not report this. When looking at System information > Storage > my SSD > SMART status the system still showed "Verified", which is supposed to mean that everything is ok.
It was not.
I determined this by installing smartmontools and running a check:
brew install smartmontools
smartctl -a disk1
it showed e.g.:
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: FAILED
- Available spare has fallen below threshold
- media has been placed in read-only mode
- Data Units Written: ... 35,4 TB
- Available Spare: 1%
- Available Spare Threshhold: 10%
So issues
bad luck with SSD
bad error reporting by MacOS
Related
i resently upgraded a system. after reboot i was not able to login again. all users have been rejected with Login incorrect. systemd with journaling was running and writing error messages to file in /var/log/journal as usual.
i so booted a system from a revovery usb stick (same distribution) mounted the root device of the failed system /mnt and tried to analyze the logs with journalctl --root=/mnt/var/log/journal -xe. journalctl did not find journal files.
question: how can i read systemd journal content of a dead system using a recovery system?
have fun
I may be a bit late, but I stumbled upon this question and here is what I found:
journalctl logs are located in /var/log/journal/*
journalctl app can read foreign journal files with the following switches:
--file= followed by the *.journal file of your choice. This option may be used multiples times
--root= followed by the root directory of you choice, probably a mounted partition
--image= followed by a disk image,
files as argument, with the option --file
Background
I was trying to use netatalk to create Time Capsule using an Raspberry Pi 3, following the tutorial here. Some version info:
netatalk 3.1.12
macOS 10.14.5
Raspberian 4.19.50-v7+
Issues and findings
After reaching the last part of the tutorial, and able to connect over afp://, I realised that the volume is read-only.
I re-read the tutorial and realised that I didn't do the first step, because the drive is already HFS+. My guess is the ignore ownership on this volume is essential for netatalk to work properly.
Result / Symptom list
[✔︎] able to connect over afp://
[✔︎] able to mount the external drive on RPi
[𝝬] mounted drive on RPi is read-only
[𝝬] some of the directory can't be read, neither RPi nor via afp://
i.e. cp result in cp: cannot open 'filename' for reading: Permission denied
[𝝬] unable to mount the external drive on macOS
[𝝬] volume is read-only on macOS over afp://
The configurations used
/etc/fstab
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
PARTUUID=7e67b292-01 /boot vfat defaults 0 2
PARTUUID=7e67b292-02 / ext4 defaults,noatime 0 1
/dev/sda2 /media/tm hfsplus force,rw,user,auto 0 0
/etc/netatalk/afp.conf
; Netatalk 3.x configuration file
;
[Global]
; Global server settings
; [Homes]
; basedir regex = /xxxx
;[My AFP Volume]
;path = /media/tm
[Timestone]
path = /media/tm
time machine = yes
/etc/nsswitch.conf
passwd: files
group: files
shadow: files
gshadow: files
hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4 mdns
networks: files
protocols: db files
services: db files
ethers: db files
rpc: db files
netgroup: nis
/etc/avahi/services/afpd.service
<?xml version="1.0" standalone='no'?><!--*-nxml-*-->
<!DOCTYPE service-group SYSTEM "avahi-service.dtd">
<service-group>
<name replace-wildcards="yes">%h</name>
<service>
<type>_afpovertcp._tcp</type>
<port>548</port>
</service>
<service>
<type>_device-info._tcp</type>
<port>0</port>
<txt-record>model=TimeCapsule</txt-record>
</service>
</service-group>
Attempts to fix
macOS mount doesn't work
macOS force mount doesn't work
macOS gui diskutil first aid is unable
macOS cli diskVerify is unable to mount and stopped
macOS cli diskRepair is unable to mount and stopped
RPi fsck does not seems to fix the problem
RPi fsck.hfsplus does not seems to fix the problem
Questions and directions
The drive is able to be mounted read-only with some barred access on RPi, the data is likely to be safe. Currently, the drive refuses to mount on macOS, so I can't use macOS to enable the ignore ownership on this volume.
How come the volume (HFS+, created and used on macOS) is mountable on RPi after the tutorial and became unmountable on macOS afterwards?
Give the symptoms, is there any key step that cause this (besides not check ignore ownership on this volume)?
Are there some tracks as a resolution? to either:
mount the drive on macOS, which allow me to fix the permission and backup the data
fix the permission on RPi, so the backup and be done via afp://
or, any better suggestions to overcome these obstacles.
This was driving me up the wall for a week. I take it you are trying to do this from the howtogeek or techradar article?
After the installation, from the raspberrypi I shutdown the system:
sudo shutdown -h now
I unplugged my pi then restarted it (plugged it back in) and ran the following commands:
sudo service avahi-daemon start
sudo service netatalk start
sudo systemctl enable avahi-daemon
sudo systemctl enable netatalk
It worked and I am up and running with my Time Machine!! Hope this helps!
I have a production server running CentOS 6.9 on Alicloud in China. Instance is of ecs.sn1.3xlarge type. Recently one of my data disk became filled-up. So I decided to resize the volume and followed the step by step instructions available on this page: https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/doc-detail/25452.html.
Here are steps that I followed:
Resized disk form console
Rebooted system (Rebooting system didn't resized/populated disk on system)
umount disk
Run fdisk on desired disk
e2fsck -f /dev/vdb1 # check the file system
resize2fs /dev/vdb1 # resize the file system
Thank you in Advance
I am using Ubuntu 18.04, woeUsb, 15 GB usb3 Stick, windows 10 64Bit ISO to create bootable device. I found few tutorials how to do it, but I still get error.
Installation failed!
Exit code: 256
Log:
WoeUSB v##WOEUSB_VERSION##
============================== Mounting source filesystem... Wiping all existing partition table and filesystem signatures in /dev/sda...
wipefs: error: /dev/sda: probing initialization failed: No medium
found The command "wipefs --all "${target_device}"" failed with exit
status "1", program is prematurely aborted Unmounting and removing
"/media/woeusb_source_1532252869_8362"... You may now safely detach
the target device
I tried to format my USB several times but nothing worked. I used FAT32 format. Should I first convert it to NTFS?
I have the same issue and found the solution by unmounting USB drive in this way,
Go to the Disks and select your USB drive from the left side menu, and click on the icon shown in the below image to unmount USB.
The command line version of the tool works better in my experience:
woeusb --device Win10_1909_English_x64.iso /dev/sdX --target-filesystem NTFS
/dev/sdX might be different on your system such as sda sdb ..., make sure to check the device path using gparted or fdisk.
Make sure to set the filesystem to NTFS with --target-filesystem NTFS as FAT32 doesn't support large files.
I found that you have to run the software with sudo because it requires the use of gparted. If you don't do this it won't succeed and exit. I suspect this is your problem. I had a similar problem.
I had the same problem but after surfing internet I found something like this: **
sudo woeusb --device image.iso /dev/sdb --tgt-fs NTFS --verbose
**. So in the command image.iso is the OS you downloaded(or the path to it), while the /dev... is the USB device and type of format(NTFS). Just copy the command, change image.iso to the path of your image.iso and change the /dev/sdb to the name of your USB device and make sure you are connected to internet because when I ran the command it seems it communicated with GitHub. Good luck I hope this will help if you haven't found any answer.
There is no need to use any third party tool in the Windows operating system to create a bootable USB. Follow the below commands:
1. Plug your USB drive
2. Open Command Prompt
3. Type: diskpart .
4. Type list volume (this will show your drives)
5. Type sel vol h (h can be replaced with ur usb volume, can be anything g, h, i)
6. Type active
7. It will make your USB active, copy and paste windows files inside it.
I am trying to set up dual boot in my MacBookPro. When I am trying to make a partition from Disk Utility it is giving error,
Checking multi-linked files.
Checking catalog hierarchy.
Invalid directory item count (It should be 32673 instead of 32674)
I found solution from this post
Boot the Mac into Single User Mode by holding down Command+S during system boot. write,
fsck -fy
Once fsck completes, if you see a “File system was modified” message, you need to run again,
fsck -fy
After that you need to run,
reboot