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MacBook fsroot errors when I run the first aid utility

How to fix the fsroot errors issue in Catalina on MacBook ?

Posted on Aug 20, 2020 11:12 AM

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Posted on Aug 20, 2020 12:57 PM

If you run First Aid a second time, do the same errors appear? It looks to me like a software problem corrupting the filesystem. My suggestion is to backup your data, ASAP. Then follow these steps:


Install El Capitan or Later from Scratch


If possible, back up your files.


  1. Restart the computer. Immediately, at or before the chime, hold down the Command and R keys until the Apple logo and progress bar appear. Wait until the Utility Menu appears.
  2. Select Disk Utility from the Utility Menu and click on the Continue button.
  3. When Disk Utility loads select the target drive (out-dented entry w/type and size info) from the Device list.
  4. Click on the Erase button in Disk Utility's toolbar. A panel will drop down.
  5. Set the partition scheme to GUID.
  6. Set the Format type to APFS (SSDs only) or Mac OS Extended (Journaled.)
  7. Click on the Apply button, then wait for the Done button to activate and click on it.
  8. Quit Disk Utility and return to the Utility Menu.
  9. Select Install OS X and click on the Continue button.


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Aug 20, 2020 12:57 PM in response to vj1967

If you run First Aid a second time, do the same errors appear? It looks to me like a software problem corrupting the filesystem. My suggestion is to backup your data, ASAP. Then follow these steps:


Install El Capitan or Later from Scratch


If possible, back up your files.


  1. Restart the computer. Immediately, at or before the chime, hold down the Command and R keys until the Apple logo and progress bar appear. Wait until the Utility Menu appears.
  2. Select Disk Utility from the Utility Menu and click on the Continue button.
  3. When Disk Utility loads select the target drive (out-dented entry w/type and size info) from the Device list.
  4. Click on the Erase button in Disk Utility's toolbar. A panel will drop down.
  5. Set the partition scheme to GUID.
  6. Set the Format type to APFS (SSDs only) or Mac OS Extended (Journaled.)
  7. Click on the Apply button, then wait for the Done button to activate and click on it.
  8. Quit Disk Utility and return to the Utility Menu.
  9. Select Install OS X and click on the Continue button.


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Aug 20, 2020 11:36 AM in response to vj1967

Use First Aid to repair. If that failed, then reformat the drive and reinstall macOS.


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Aug 20, 2020 12:23 PM in response to Kappy

Here are additional details as required . .


Macbook (Retina, 12 inch, early 2015) running Catalina Version 10.15.6


Mac was showing a message stating that my harddisk was running out of space.


Then after doing some basic checking saw that Only 1.37 GB space was available.


Deleted a few files but the space didnot free up.


Used Disk utilitiy and here are the results ... PLEASE HELP SORT OUT THE ISSUE.


Thanks.


Running First Aid on “Macintosh HD - Data” (disk1s1)


Verifying the startup volume will cause this computer to stop responding.


Verifying file system.

Volume could not be unmounted.

Using live mode.

Performing fsck_apfs -n -l -x /dev/rdisk1s1

Checking the container superblock.

Checking the EFI jumpstart record.

Checking the space manager.

Checking the space manager free queue trees.

Checking the object map.

Checking volume.

Checking the APFS volume superblock.

The volume Macintosh HD - Data was formatted by hfs_convert (748.21.6) and last modified by apfs_kext (1412.141.1).

Checking the object map.

Checking the snapshot metadata tree.

Checking the snapshot metadata.

Checking the extent ref tree.

Checking the fsroot tree.

warning: xf : INO_EXT_TYPE_DSTREAM : found unexpected dstream associated with non-regular file

warning: xf : INO_EXT_TYPE_DSTREAM : found unexpected dstream associated with non-regular file

warning: xf : INO_EXT_TYPE_DSTREAM : found unexpected dstream associated with non-regular file



SAME MESSAGE MANY TIMES .. DELETED THEM SO THAT I CAN SEND THIS MESSAGE.

Too many warnings of this type generated; suppressing subsequent ones.

warning: found orphan dstream id object (id 12565537, refcnt 1)

warning: found orphan dstream id object (id 12885012, refcnt 1)

warning: found orphan dstream id object (id 12911571, refcnt 1)

warning: found orphan dstream id object (id 12994097, refcnt 1)


SAME MESSAGE MANY TIMES .. DELETED THEM SO THAT I CAN SEND THIS MESSAGE.

warning: found orphan dstream id object (id 20965551, refcnt 1)

warning: found orphan dstream id object (id 20998193, refcnt 1)

Too many warnings of this type generated; suppressing subsequent ones.

Verifying allocated space.

Performing deferred repairs.

The volume /dev/rdisk1s1 appears to be OK.

File system check exit code is 0.

Restoring the original state found as mounted.


Operation successful.


MacBook fsroot errors when I run the first aid utility

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