Sudo Xmount Raw Path To Containertoinvert File Dmg Volumes Apfs Image Average ratng: 9,3/10 2631 votes

Nov 16, 2020 Source could be a DMG image file path or some existing disk in the form of /dev/diskN. One might expect that specifying a DMG image file as source and some existing empty APFS container as target should do the right thing. You get cryptic errors. The trick is to: first, mount your DMG file = it creates a synthetised disk. May 16, 2018 If the Linux distribution you’re on has HFS support in the kernel (Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS supports it), it’s pretty easy to just mount the DMG image: sudo mount -t hfsplus image.dmg /mnt. We’re using “sudo” because we need root privileges to mount things. The HFS+ file system type is specified with “-t hfsplus”. Use sudo tee (if you have to escape a lot when using the -c option): sudo ls -hal /root/ sudo tee /root/test.out /dev/null The redirect to /dev/null is needed to stop tee from outputting to the screen. To append instead of overwriting the output file , use tee -a or tee -append (the last one is specific to GNU coreutils). After cloning APFS drives using Disk Utility it usually ends with a volume containing ContainerToInvert file with the size of a cloned partition. Don't be afraid, using the following steps you can mount this file as APFS container and get all partitions. Oct 02, 2017 Drag the dmg file from your Finder window onto the Terminal window and let go. This will fill in the location of the dmg file into your Terminal window. MacOS Sierra (10.12) and earlier is not able to mount the new Apple File System (APFS). Aug 23, 2019 sudo mkdir /media/iso; Mount the ISO file to the mount point by typing the following command: sudo mount /path/to/image.iso /media/iso -o loop. Don’t forget to replace /path/to/image.iso with the path to your ISO file. Mounting NFS # To mount an NFS share you’ll need to have the NFS client package installed on your system.

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Kelly Heffner Wilkerson
November 8, 2019 at 6:30 AM
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I ran into an interesting macOS error while working with a customer a couple of weeks ago. I didn't find a lot of good search results addressing the issue, so I decided to write up a post about it myself.

The error was as the screenshot above shows; trying to open a dmg (disk image), macOS showed the error 'no mountable file systems'. If you see the 'no mountable file systems error' while opening a dmg, here's what you should try:

  1. In most cases, the downloaded dmg file is actually corrupt or had an error downloading. If possible, try downloading the dmg again, turning off any download assistant plug-ins you may have. You can try downloading the file in a different browser as well. Or if you don't need to be logged in to the site to download the file and you want to be fancy, you can try curl -O url in Terminal to download the file. (There's an example of that in my screenshot below.)

  2. Reboot your Mac if you haven't already tried that. Apparently there is an issue sometimes after opening too many dmg files, that is fixed with a reboot.

  3. Try mounting the DMG on the command line in Terminal. We will at least get some sort of useful error message to go on if it still fails:

    • Hoe it up sims 4 download. Open Terminal: In Spotlight, the search magnifying glass at the upper right corner of your screen, search for Terminal, and press enter to open the Terminal app.

    • Type hdiutil attach -verbose into the terminal. Add a space at the end, but don't press enter yet.

    • Drag the dmg file from your Finder window onto the Terminal window and let go. This will fill in the location of the dmg file into your Terminal window.

    • Press enter.
  4. macOS Sierra (10.12) and earlier is not able to mount the new Apple File System (APFS). So if you're on macOS Sierra (10.12) or earlier and you ran hdiutil and see references to Apple_APFS or error 112, the issue is likely legitimate incompatibility, and this disk image won't open on this Mac without an update to the operating system.

    Here's an example of the end of hdiutil attach -verbose output that shows an APFS error due to an older version of macOS: Download driver epson lx 300 for windows 7 32 bit.

  5. Think about if you have any kind of security policies on this machine to prevent writing to external drives (thumb drives, optical drives, etc). I haven't seen this one in action, but I read about this being a possibility while researching the issue.

  6. Another suggestion added by a reader (thank you, Markus!) is that filesystem errors on your main Mac drive could be the cause of the disk image mounting errors. Here are instructions from Apple for scanning and repairing errors using Disk Utility. Note that in order to scan and repair errors on your main Macintosh HD drive, you'll need to reboot your Mac into recovery mode. You'll want to choose Disk Utility in the utilities listed in the recovery mode menu.

  7. A new discovery from a reader (thank you, Colby!) is that APFS DMGs won't mount if you're booted in macOS booted in Safe Mode. (Who knew!?!) If you're not sure if you're in safe mode, select the Apple menu  > About This Mac > System Report button, then select the 'Software' heading from the left column. To exit safe mode, restart your Mac, without holding Shift during startup. Or, if you previously set your Mac to always boot into safe mode using nvram, turn off safe mode and have your Mac boot normally on the terminal:

    • Open Terminal: In Spotlight, the search magnifying glass at the upper right corner of your screen, search for Terminal, and press enter to open the Terminal app.

    • Type/paste sudo nvram boot-args=' and press enter.

    • Restart your Mac.

How to solve 'APFS inverter failed to invert the volume' error
gistfile1.txt
After cloning APFS drives using Disk Utility it usually ends with a volume containing ContainerToInvert file with the size of a cloned partition.
Don't be afraid, using the following steps you can mount this file as APFS container and get all partitions.
1. Requirements
We need FUSE and xmount installed
2. Terminal
Open Terminal app and type the following:
$ sudo mkdir /Volumes/apfs_image/
$ sudo mkdir /Volumes/apfs_mounted/
$ sudo xmount --in raw <path to ContainerToInvert file> --out dmg /Volumes/apfs_image/
$ hdiutil attach -nomount /Volumes/apfs_image/ContainerToInvert.dmg
$ diskutil ap list
## this is optional step, I don't need it
$ diskutil ap unlockVolume <Disk GUID> -nomount
$ sudo mount_apfs -o rdonly,noexec,noowners /dev/disk# /Volumes/apfs_mounted/
After that, you will have the original partition mounted to your system.
References and Thank You’s
https://www.mac4n6.com/blog/2017/11/26/mount-all-the-things-mounting-apfs-and-4k-disk-images-on-macos-1013

Sudo Xmount Raw Path To Container To Invert File Dmg Volumes Apfs Image

commented Aug 3, 2018

Fantastic work, thank you so much for this!
I've kept a 40 GB ContainerToInvert file on my disk for months now because I didn't know quite what it represented, and opening it with a hex editor revealed strings that matched the contents of several files on my drive. My worst-case fear of deleting ContainerToInvert was that it might somehow be some important part of APFS, and deleting it would either delete the files I saw in the hex editor or corrupt my drive (likely both).
But now I can browse it as a DMG, copying off whatever I need from it, and then safely delete it. Thanks so much again!!

commented Nov 3, 2018

Sudo Xmount Raw Path To Containertoinvert File Dmg Volumes Apfs Image File

Should work without need for xmount and is simpler

commented Jul 13, 2019

I've been using the code above, still the files I found in my ContainerToInvert are corrupt or at least, I can not open them. mehrdata's way did not work for me either. still the files seem to be corrupt :-/
any ideas?

commented Sep 19, 2019

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