On 2020-01-23, at 10:39 AM, Macs R We <[email protected]> wrote: > Although all of this is true, as it turns out, I know of only one disk > management tool that will even attempt to repair a Time Machine volume, > because the volume architecture is so baroque -- and that is Disk Utility. If > you try to repair the volume with Disk Warrior, it will flat out tell you, > "this is a Time Machine volume, and I don't do those." You have to use only > Disk Utility, not fsck. If DU can't solve the problem, it can't be solved.
Unfortunately, Disk utility (the window app) does the same thing that the command line diskutil does. Both wind up calling the appropriate fsck.hfs tool with the right args, and give identical results. So what is going on with the btree such that an invalid sibling means that all the files are lost and unobtainable? How did we go from "At worst, you lose your directories, because the inode list / catalog file will at least contain all the files, and most of the time you just lose a top level directory somewhere and the directory structure under there is fine". I could search lost+found for the right filename, and start recovering the directory I need that way. > >> On Jan 23, 2020, at 11:31 AM, Matt Penna <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Jan 23, 2020, at 1:25 PM, Michael <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> On 2020-01-23, at 10:23 AM, Matt Penna <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> If you have DiskWarrior, I would give that a try. I believe it works on >>>> disk images and sparsebundles. >>>> >>>> Matt >>> >>> I do not have disk warrior. >> >> Unfortunately, whenever a drive or image is not reparable like this, I’ve >> always had to resort to a 3rd-party tool to fix the file system; the >> built-in tools are not very robust. Perhaps someone else will have another >> suggestion. >> >> It’s always been baffling to me that 3rd parties write better fix-it tools >> than the people who write the OSes. This has been a problem for over 30 >> years and it’s still as unsolved as ever, even if the file systems are a lot >> less fragile than they used to be. >> >> Matt >> _______________________________________________ >> MacOSX-talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk > > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk --- Entertaining minecraft videos http://YouTube.com/keybounce _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] https://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
