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Repair APFS 'warning: overallocation detected on Main device'
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1. Boot into Recovery mode (by pressing CMD+R while boot macOS) | |
2. Unmount APFS volumes automaticaly mounted by Recovery (where /dev/disk2 is your APFS container) | |
$ diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk2 | |
Unmount of all volumes on disk2 was successful | |
3. Unlock APFS volumes (in case FileVault enabled for this volume) | |
$ diskutil apfs unlockVolume /dev/disk2s1 -nomount | |
Passphrase: <enter password here> | |
Unlocking any cryptographic user on APFS Volume disk2s1 | |
Unlocked but did not mount APFS Volume | |
3.1. To verify that volume unlocked (look for "Yes (Unlocked)"): | |
$ diskutil apfs list | |
... | |
| +-> Volume disk2s1 73D0148D-36A2-429D-AE11-8FFB7E89EED7 | |
| --------------------------------------------------- | |
| APFS Volume Disk (Role): disk2s1 (Data) | |
| Name: BigSur - Data (Case-insensitive) | |
| Mount Point: Not Mounted | |
| Capacity Consumed: 349155135488 B (349.2 GB) | |
| Sealed: No | |
| FileVault: Yes (Unlocked) | |
... | |
4. Run APFS repair command | |
$ fsck_apfs -oys /dev/disk2 | |
... | |
warning: overallocation detected on Main device: (0x128e04+1) bitmap address (0x7c93d) | |
Fix overallocation (0x128e04+1) bitmap address (0x7c93d)? YES | |
... | |
** The volume /dev/disk2 appears to be OK. |
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