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Unable to mount when right clicking and selecting mount. M1 Mac Mini on Ventura.
Posted : 29/08/2023 8:50 pm
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Posted : 29/08/2023 8:51 pm
The SoftRAID driver always loads in 13.5. This is a directory issue. Do you have Disk Warrior? Disk Warrior is your friend for this kind of problem. It can rebuild the directory.
I assume you had a crash or something recently?
Posted : 30/08/2023 2:35 am
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Ah got it. Yep, had a power outage and a crash and will get DiskWarrior now. Sorry, new to this and first RAID
Posted : 30/08/2023 7:37 am
@acgourley
This is a problem, as APFS does not have a repair mechanism to fix damaged directories.
How did your volume get out of sync? Kernel panics? A drive not showing up?
You will likely need to restore from backup, or recover the data with something like R-Studio or Disk Drill, unfortunately.
Sorry. APFS should not do this, but it does.
Posted : 07/09/2023 7:48 am
@acgourley
When you connected to the new computer, did your volume mount?
(You mentioned that you had to rebuild everything, not clear what you meant)
APFS is the future, but Apple needs a file system repair tool (directory repair). Until one exists, I am careful with APFS volumes. APFS seems to be near flawless on internal MacOS system volumes, but flawed on external drives. I have also seen such directory damage on Apple RAID volumes in testing, and see reports of external dries no longer mounting. So a repair tool is sorely needed.
HFS may be old, but when there is a problem, it can generally be fixed. Many APFS features are very useful, but you need to keep backups current.
Posted : 23/09/2023 11:10 am
