The definition of #ingominy :
when I have to use an #Apple #MacBook under #macos to fix a #ScanDisk #USBdrive to be able see it on my Linux #nixOS machine
when the #gnomedisk #diskutility of the #Linux machine formatted the USB drive to render it invisible to itself.
How is this whole situation acceptable???!
I can't tell how much space I've used, or have available; I can't tell how much overhead I need…
#Finder, Get Info, #DiskUtility, and #DaisyDisk **all** give me different numbers for how much space I'm using and/or have available…
What a GD clusterfuck. I thought #APFS was supposed to be an improvement…?
#DiskUtility: Anyone an idea how to solve that? Or is the #SanDisk 1TB SSD bricked? This type has usually lots of issues and isn't sold anymore. I guess I can throw it away?
I have a #MacBook Pro, my trusty old circa 2013 model, somewhat on the old side, running MacOSX Big Sur 11.7.10. It works well enough for everything that I need it for, a basic daily driver for work, most of all.
I spotted a great deal at #Costco, a 1 terabyte #SanDisk SSD device for a song and so I got it. Then after I unpacked it and setup #TimeMachine on it, so it would serve as a backup for my MacBook I noticed a curious bug. Once I had the drive mounted, it worked well, but when I ejected the drive, sometimes it would give me a error that it couldn’t be mounted. I went off to #Google to search, and came across a bunch of people who were experiencing very similar errors with their SanDisk devices. I found that after I rebooted my MacBook, the problem seemed to go away.
With complicated bugs, often times the trigger is either complicated or multi-step, and for a brief while, the problem with this drive returned. It would come and go, seemingly at random. Sometimes when I plugged it in, it would #mount without issue, and other times it would simply not, and off to #DiskUtility, where when I tried to force the mount, it refused with the cryptic error and only clear after a reboot.
I started to really concentrate on all the things I was doing, all the little mindless actions that I do at the start and end of the day, because something was causing this seemingly random bug to appear. One day, last week, I caught myself doing the very thing that triggers this bug!
I have my MacBook Pro, it’s plugged into a standard powered USB 3.0 hub, and then I have a 2TB standard external HDD and the 1TB SDD backup drive plugged into the USB Hub. When I eject the drives at the end of the day, and then unplug them both from the hub shortly afterwards, the drives will both re-mount without an issue. Every single time.
When I eject the drives, and instead pull the USB Hub off the side of the MacBook, after that, the standard HDD will mount without a problem, but the SanDisk SDD drive will always fail to mount with the cryptic error.
I don’t know for certain where this bug actually is, but my educated guess is that it has something to do with USB Bus Enumeration or perhaps some sort of flag that doesn’t get set properly either in my MacBook Pro, the USB Hub, or the SanDisk SDD device.
If you have a SanDisk SDD like I have, and it tosses random mount errors on Big Sur, give this a shot. Eject and then unplug the device, see if that doesn’t clear it up, because it did for me. #infotech
https://www.windchilde.com/bluedepth/2024/02/05/cornering-a-bug/
#Costco #DiskUtility #google #infotech #MacBook #mount #SanDisk #TimeMachine
Once again, TFW #macOS #DiskUtility tells you you cannot eject a disk because it is “currently in use”, even though NOT A SINGLE ONE OF ITS APFS VOLUMES IS CURRENTLY MOUNTED in the #Finder.
The only place where it might be “in use” is in… Disk Utility itself.
Or maybe you are just not supposed to click on that Eject button next to the disk itself. Which begs the question: What is that button for?
Oh well, I give up trying to understand this. I am unplugging the device!
(No alert follows.)
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Ok, this is a long shot but I’ll ask: I have an #iPod (a 30gb iPod video that’s been upgraded to a 64gb ssd). When I connect it to my #iMac (a 21.5” 2019 model running #Ventura) it will charge, but won’t appear as a device - it doesn’t show up on the desktop or sidebar, and isn’t listed in #DiskUtility. I’ve tried 2 different usb cables, same result.
Any idea of what to try? I really want to get it running!
Hola, #DiskUtility for #macOS, my favourite utility made by Apple of all time!
Would you care to explain why you are listing, not one, not two, but THREE copies of the external APFS volume I use for nightly backups of my internal SSD drive, not to mention TWO copies of the other “- Data” part of the backup, expected for a system volume, but maybe not in duplicate?
Also, can you tell me why you refuse to EJECT/unmount the volume, no matter how many times I try?
No?
Didn’t think you would.
#DiskUtility told me my Mac’s SSD drive was nearly full after hearing from #Dropbox that it couldn't sync, because of lack of space.
Upon closer inspection, #TimeMachine had filled up the last 45% of my drive with temp files and snapshots.
Restarting three times helped. Back to only 48% full.
On an external 16 TB APFS hard drive, I apparently have three volumes that are “not mounted” and not listed anywhere. I strongly suspect that these are recovery partitions, but I have no way to tell for sure, and, of course, #macOS’s #DiskUtility fails to explain anything.
Still, it’s really entertaining to watch Disk Utility deal with their presence while updating a backup on another volume on the HD:
#SanDisk ? is this #uSD #SdCard fake ? : I have observed some differences in reports with #f3 and #gnome #diskutility, #F3 reports: Average writing speed: 9.14 MB/s Average reading speed: 14.53 MB/s
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