Fusion Drive seems to be messed up
I felt that my iMac late 2012 became pretty slow, above all after login. Now when I look into disk utility, it seems that my disk doesn't behave as Fusion Drive any more:
An output from terminal:
➜ ~ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *121.3 GB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Untitled 121.0 GB disk0s2
/dev/disk1
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *3.0 TB disk1
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk1s1
2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 3.0 TB disk1s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk1s3
➜ ~ diskutil cs list
No CoreStorage logical volume groups found
How can I repair this?
Solution 1:
To rebuild your Fusion Drive almost non-destructively you have to convert your main volume (the HDD) to a Core Storage Volume Group first, then add the SSD as a physical volume and expand the Logical Volume to the full size of the now expanded Volume Group. All data on the SSD (volume: Untitled) will be erased, so back it up.
- Backup your main volume and if necessary the volume "Untitled" on your SSD to an external backup drive.
- Detach the backup drive and all other external drives
- Boot to Recovery Mode by entering cmdR immediately after the boot chime.
- Open Disk Utility and check all volumes and disks for errors and repair them.
But don't repair/rebuild the Fusion Drive without a backup, if you are asked to. You will loose all your data.
If you have a (Time Machine) backup, you may now repair the Fusion Drive, check it for errors, quit Disk Utility, open Restore From Time Machine Backup, restore your backup data and finally reboot to the restored system. - Quit Disk Utility
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Open Terminal in the menubar
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Enter
diskutil list
Example list/dev/disk0 #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: GUID_partition_scheme *121.3 GB disk0 1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1 2: Apple_HFS SSD 121.0 GB disk0s2 /dev/disk1 #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: GUID_partition_scheme *3.0 TB disk1 1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk1s1 2: Apple_HFS HDD 3.0 TB disk1s2 3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk1s3 /dev/disk2 #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: Apple_partition_scheme *1.3 GB disk2 1: Apple_partition_map 30.7 KB disk2s1 2: Apple_HFS OS X Base System *1.3 GB disk2s2 /dev/disk3-disk13 ...belong to the OS X Base System (your recovery system you booted to previously)Disk0 is your SSD, disk1 is your HDD and disk2 is the OS X Base System of your Recovery HD
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Now convert your main volume (the HDD) to a Core Storage Volume Group:
diskutil cs convert disk1s2If you get a message stating that "the disk can't be unmounted, converted volume won't appear until it's unmounted", exit Terminal and reboot to Recovery Mode
- Open Disk Utility and check the newly build Core Storage volume.
- Quit Disk Utility and open Terminal
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Now you have to convert the SSD to a Physical Volume. Enter:
diskutil listto get the disk identifier of the HFS volume on the SSD and
diskutil cs listto get the Logical Volume Group UUID (LVGUUID) and the Logical Volume UUID (LVUUID). It's the first and the last one listed.
To add the SSD volume to the Volume Group enter:
diskutil cs addDisk LVGUUID DiskIdentifierExample:
diskutil cs addDisk DA484337-F888-474B-90B5-232D14FD9B30 disk0s2 -
Now expand the Logical Volume with
diskutil cs resizeVolume LVUUID sizewith size a little bit smaller than the size of the Logical Volume GroupExample:
diskutil cs resizeVolume 999ACBDC-045E-44FF-BBFD-54F56D069722 3106gI also have a 3,1 TB Fusion Drive (the output of
diskuil cs listis listed below) and the size of the LVG is 3,120,722,075,648 Byte and the size of the Logical Volume is 3,106,191,572,992 Byte:CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found) | +-- Logical Volume Group DA484337-F888-474B-90B5-232D14FD9B30 ========================================================= Name: Macintosh HD Status: Online Size: 3120722075648 B (3.1 TB) Free Space: 114688 B (114.7 KB) | +-< Physical Volume A3326508-CF3D-4ABC-8157-839074724063 | ---------------------------------------------------- | Index: 0 | Disk: disk0s2 | Status: Online | Size: 120988852224 B (121.0 GB) | +-< Physical Volume 24BB36F1-B9E5-418E-BD8C-3F2C6DBF4B44 | ---------------------------------------------------- | Index: 1 | Disk: disk1s2 | Status: Online | Size: 2999733223424 B (3.0 TB) | +-> Logical Volume Family AA514A06-08D2-4F56-A0C5-E82A94E60A82 ---------------------------------------------------------- Encryption Status: Unlocked Encryption Type: None Conversion Status: NoConversion Conversion Direction: -none- Has Encrypted Extents: No Fully Secure: No Passphrase Required: No | +-> Logical Volume 999ACBDC-045E-44FF-BBFD-54F56D069722 --------------------------------------------------- Disk: disk3 Status: Online Size (Total): 3106191572992 B (3.1 TB) Conversion Progress: -none- Revertible: No LV Name: Macintosh HD Volume Name: Macintosh HD Content Hint: Apple_HFS - After successfully expanding the Logical Volume enter
exitand quit Terminal - Open Disk Utility and check the Fusion Drive volume for errors.
- Quit Disk Utility and reboot to your Fusion Drive
If everything fails check the second part ('Rebuild Fusion Drive' (recommended if you have a Time Machine backup)) of my answer here.