{"id":36000,"date":"2022-05-26T16:16:39","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T20:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=36000"},"modified":"2024-10-11T16:10:12","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T20:10:12","slug":"will-disk-utility-ever-work-properly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/26\/will-disk-utility-ever-work-properly\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Disk Utility Ever Work Properly?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2022\/05\/22\/last-week-on-my-mac-will-disk-utility-ever-work-properly\/\">Howard Oakley<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2022\/05\/22\/last-week-on-my-mac-will-disk-utility-ever-work-properly\/\">\n<p>When Apple developed APFS, it decided neither to make it open source, nor to document it sufficiently to help third parties develop their own utilities for its maintenance. In doing so, it made a commitment to its users that Apple itself would provide all the tools necessary to work with its new file system. After all, any file system without sufficient tools to check, repair and maintain it isn&rsquo;t fit for release, is it?<\/p>\n<p>Disk Utility and its command line check and repair tool <code>fsck_apfs<\/code> are thus among the most important utilities in the whole of macOS. While there are several excellent alternatives which can perform the same tasks on HFS+ volumes, Apple&rsquo;s policies on APFS have successfully locked all competition out of this market. Yet, over five years after the new file system&rsquo;s release on 27 March 2017, Disk Utility is still <a href=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2022\/05\/19\/disk-utility-can-only-check-backup-disks-in-recovery\/\">riddled with bugs<\/a>, and can&rsquo;t check or repair disks containing Time Machine backups unless the Mac is booted in Recovery Mode, or without resorting to skulduggery with hidden snapshots.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/apple.stackexchange.com\/questions\/364759\/where-can-i-find-the-apfs-format-documentation-volume-specification\/\">AskDifferent<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2019\/09\/30\/should-you-trust-disk-utilitys-first-aid-or-fsck\/\">\nShould you trust Disk Utility&rsquo;s First Aid or fsck?<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/20\/disk-utility-can-only-check-backup-disks-in-recovery\/\">Disk Utility Can Only Check Backup Disks in Recovery<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/02\/high-sierras-disk-utility-does-not-recognize-unformatted-disks\/\">High Sierra&rsquo;s Disk Utility Does Not Recognize Unformatted Disks<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/13\/disk-utility-in-el-capitan\/\">Disk Utility in El Capitan<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howard Oakley: When Apple developed APFS, it decided neither to make it open source, nor to document it sufficiently to help third parties develop their own utilities for its maintenance. In doing so, it made a commitment to its users that Apple itself would provide all the tools necessary to work with its new file [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2022-05-26T20:16:42Z","apple_news_api_id":"61c4b9d2-5792-44b5-a0c2-027355d4b71d","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2024-10-11T20:10:14Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AYcS50leSRLWgwgJzVdS3HQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1395,538,164,2670,30,2077],"class_list":["post-36000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple-file-system-apfs","tag-diskutility","tag-documentation","tag-hfs-plus","tag-mac","tag-macos-12"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36001,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36000\/revisions\/36001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}