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Disk Utility still can't check and repair APFS volumes and containers

Disk Utility still can't check and repair APFS volumes and containers

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·September 21, 2025
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rahimnathwani

I needed to resize my APFS partition to install Asahi Linux.

The Asahi installer couldn't resize the partition due to some orphan inodes or something.

Rebooting into Recovery mode and using Disk Utility (GUI) and diskutil (CLI) didn't fix the issues.

But `fsck_apfs -y` did the trick. I had to first do `diskutil unlock volume -nomount` as it was an encrypted volume.

jokowueu

Where were you two weeks ago! Gonna try it

dostick

Why post this with invalid title? It should be in 2021 it was impossible…

rahimnathwani

It's still impossible. See my other comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=rahimnathwani

lapcat

By HN convention, the submission title should still have (2021) appended.

anacrolix

I've reported a trivially reproducible mmap issue that causes Darwin to spiral into locking up with no apparent reason. "Not a vulnerability".

I also reported a bug in Safari HTTP proxy handling that prevents encryption. No reply.

I provided source code, and reproduction steps for both.

Fuck Apple

user3939382

Apple basically stopped working on non-BS macos features 10-15 years ago. The FDE unlock on boot ssh was literally shocking for this reason. Apple’s software priority is iOS DAU.

SonOfKyuss

This article is from 2021. I’m curious if the problem has been addressed since then

rahimnathwani

I faced the problem today on Tahoe. See my other comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=rahimnathwani