I had some issues with 10.13.6 beta that I didn't realize until I installed 10.14 where my file system was corrupted.
After several days of troubleshooting I ultimately had to split and delete both drives from a USB Mojave boot disk and from that recovery created the fusion drive and merged again following directions from this link from @Weaselboy
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/i-think-i-just-broke-my-new-imac.1973683/
I was able to install Mojave, and used migration assistant to import data and ran into issues with Mac user accounts not showing. To resolve this I simply had to go to System Preferences > Users and Groups > add user accounts with the names (to find this go to terminal and type
) and select option to add to existing folder.
I then went to disk utility and first aid found no issues however I now see the following which could've occurred at any point
Fusion Drive
>Container Disk2
>>Macintosh HD
I'll attach a picture.
I also got my first external SSD from Crucial with a Nexstar GX enclosure for an external drive
I initialized it and formatted it APFS and it is showing a container
CT1000MX 500SSD1 Media
>Container disk7
>>Crucial1TBSSD
How do I fix this? Also side question should I enable trim or anything on this external Crucial SSD.
Edit:
Some clarifications: I had to erase fusion drive as I had a bootcamp partition on 10.13.6 that produced an error when erasing via bootcamp where I couldn't repartition via recovery or terminal without splitting and erasing the fusion drive. That's been resolved but also what led me down this path.
Edit2:
Changing Disk Utility Views to show Volumes only helps with the OCD, I've seen this may be expected with APFS but just checking at this point.
After several days of troubleshooting I ultimately had to split and delete both drives from a USB Mojave boot disk and from that recovery created the fusion drive and merged again following directions from this link from @Weaselboy
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/i-think-i-just-broke-my-new-imac.1973683/
I was able to install Mojave, and used migration assistant to import data and ran into issues with Mac user accounts not showing. To resolve this I simply had to go to System Preferences > Users and Groups > add user accounts with the names (to find this go to terminal and type
Code:
ls /usersI then went to disk utility and first aid found no issues however I now see the following which could've occurred at any point
Fusion Drive
>Container Disk2
>>Macintosh HD
I'll attach a picture.
I also got my first external SSD from Crucial with a Nexstar GX enclosure for an external drive
I initialized it and formatted it APFS and it is showing a container
CT1000MX 500SSD1 Media
>Container disk7
>>Crucial1TBSSD
How do I fix this? Also side question should I enable trim or anything on this external Crucial SSD.
Edit:
Some clarifications: I had to erase fusion drive as I had a bootcamp partition on 10.13.6 that produced an error when erasing via bootcamp where I couldn't repartition via recovery or terminal without splitting and erasing the fusion drive. That's been resolved but also what led me down this path.
Edit2:
Changing Disk Utility Views to show Volumes only helps with the OCD, I've seen this may be expected with APFS but just checking at this point.
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