

I also tried it in a different command on the other page you referenced: typing “$ sudo diskutil unmount force /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD” resulted in “Volume Macintosh HD on disk0s2 failed to unmount. I tried the command “$ sudo lsof | grep /Volume/Macintosh\ HD” but it resulted in nothing, I just got a reset terminal after it prompted me for my password.

Thank you for the additional assistance but I’m not quite sure what to do with any of this. Method 1: Use Disk Utility’s First Aid Feature. Method 2: Use Disk Utility to Format the Drive and Create a New Partition Map. Map auto_home 0Bi 0Bi 0Bi 100% 0 0 100% /home Method 3: Use the Terminal App to Format the Drive Create a New Partition Map partition is a segment (called a region) in a disk that is treated as an individual storage unit. Map auto_home on /home (autofs, automounted, nobrowse)įilesystem Size Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on Map -hosts on /net (autofs, nosuid, automounted, nobrowse) dev/disk0s2 on / (hfs, local, journaled) The 9 Best External Hard Drives, Tested by Lifewire How to Restore a Non-Startup Volume You cant use the Restore function on the current startup drive. Typing “mount” and hitting Enter yielded: Typing “/Volumes/” and hitting Tab once yielded “Macintosh HD” Tab a second time did nothing.Ģ.
