I have the standard single drive inside my MBP. The issue is inside my external usb drive.
The HDD had 4 (visible) partitions:
- My Passport (Core Storage volume) 959 gb
- SSD (backup for my mbp) 339 gb
- A linux partition, which I have formatted called lin 140 gb.
- and i'm not sure why this Boot OS X one appeared, but it has 134 mb.
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Lasty there is disk2s5, which is filevault encrypted using Yosemite.
It used to be called HDD though. This is the drive I really want to recover and I do not care about anything else on the hdd, but this partition.
I have read some of the other instructions, but would really appreciate if someone could guide me a little more with this. I don't want to risk messing this partition up, because it has music and media that is really vital and important to me. I would be forever grateful if someone could help.
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *121.3 GB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_CoreStorage 120.5 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3
/dev/disk1
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD *120.1 GB disk1
Logical Volume on disk0s2
A55BEF41-A7E8-48E8-968E-78E38DEFC708
Unlocked Encrypted
/dev/disk2
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *2.0 TB disk2
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk2s1
2: Apple_HFS SSD 399.4 GB disk2s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk2s3
4: Apple_HFS Boot OS X 134.2 MB disk2s4
5: FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF 500.0 GB disk2s5
6: Apple_Boot Boot OS X 134.2 MB disk2s6
7: Apple_HFS My Passport 959.0 GB disk2s7
8: Apple_HFS lin 140.6 GB disk2s9
hz:~ hn$ sudo gpt -r show /dev/disk2
start size index contents
0 1 PMBR
1 1 Pri GPT header
2 32 Pri GPT table
34 6
40 409600 1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
409640 779980464 2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
780390104 1269536 3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
781659640 262144 4 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
781921784 976562504 5 GPT part - FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF
1758484288 262144 6 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
1758746432 1873040464 7 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
3631786896 262144
3632049040 274652232 8 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
3906701272 262151
3906963423 32 Sec GPT table
3906963455 1 Sec GPT header
Update after the Recovery HD was removed (by accident?):
/dev/disk2
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *2.0 TB disk2
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk2s1
2: Apple_HFS SSD 399.4 GB disk2s2
3: Apple_HFS Boot OS X 134.2 MB disk2s3
4: FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF 500.0 GB disk2s4
5: Apple_Boot Boot OS X 134.2 MB disk2s5
6: Apple_HFS My Passport 959.0 GB disk2s6
7: Apple_HFS lin 140.6 GB disk2s7
sudo gpt -r show /dev/disk2
start size index contents
0 1 PMBR
1 1 Pri GPT header
2 32 Pri GPT table
34 6
40 409600 1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
409640 779980464 2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
780390104 1269536
781659640 262144 3 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
781921784 976562504 4 GPT part - FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF
1758484288 262144 5 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
1758746432 1873040464 6 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
3631786896 262144
3632049040 274652232 7 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
3906701272 262151
3906963423 32 Sec GPT table
3906963455 1 Sec GPT header
hn:~ hnn$ diskutil umountDisk /dev/disk2
Unmount of all volumes on disk2 was successful
hn:~ hnn$ sudo gpt remove -i 5 /dev/disk2
/dev/disk2s5 removed
hn:~ hnn$ diskutil umountDisk /dev/disk2
Unmount of all volumes on disk2 was successful
hn:~ hnn$ sudo gpt add -i 5 -b 781921784 -s 976562504 -t 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC /dev/disk2
gpt add: /dev/disk2: error: no space available on device
Best Answer
The partition disk2s5 has the wrong partition type. It should be 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC instead of FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF!
To solve this boot to Macintosh HD (disk0s2/disk1), open Terminal and enter:
to get an overview:
below I assume the external disk has the disk identifier disk2
unmount disk2:
remove the partition entry with the index 5 (and the type FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF):
re-add the same partition entry but with the proper type:
the external file vault volume (disk2s5) should be mounted automatically and you will be asked for the password. If not, enter
diskutil cs listanddiskutil cs unlockVolume lvUUID(with lvUUID: the Logical Volume UUID inside the second Logical Volume Group)Update because the Recovery HD partition was removed somehow:
Remove all partitions:
re-add all partitions one by one:
I have chosen a "non-sequential" adding of partitions to unmount disk2 less often!