| Operation Fusion Drive on MacBook Pro |
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| Notes - Computer |
| Thursday, 20 December 2012 22:19 |
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Command: diskutil list Result: /dev/disk0 #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk0 1: EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1 2: Apple_HFS mac-137 499.0 GB disk0s2 3: Microsoft Basic Data WINDOWS 500.9 GB disk0s3 /dev/disk1 #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: Apple_partition_scheme *35.6 MB disk1 1: Apple_partition_map 32.3 KB disk1s1 2: Apple_HFS ARD 35.5 MB disk1s2 /dev/disk2 #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk2 1: EFI 209.7 MB disk2s1 2: Apple_HFS HDD 999.9 GB disk2s2 /dev/disk3 #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: GUID_partition_scheme *240.1 GB disk3 1: EFI 209.7 MB disk3s1 2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 239.0 GB disk3s2 3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 700.0 MB disk3s3
In my case the SSD inside the MacBook was disk3 and the 2nd HDD was disk2 diskutil cs create FusionDrive disk3 disk2 Result: Started CoreStorage operation Unmounting disk3 Repartitioning disk3 Unmounting disk Creating the partition map Rediscovering disk3 Adding disk3s2 to Logical Volume Group Unmounting disk2 Repartitioning disk2 Unmounting disk Creating the partition map Rediscovering disk2 Adding disk2s2 to Logical Volume Group Creating Core Storage Logical Volume Group Switching disk3s2 to Core Storage Switching disk2s2 to Core Storage Waiting for Logical Volume Group to appear Discovered new Logical Volume Group "2B4EDB74-5842-40E4-8398-1567CD879127" Core Storage LVG UUID: 2B4EDB74-5842-40E4-8398-1567CD879127 Finished CoreStorage operation Command: diskutil cs list Result:
CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)
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+-- Logical Volume Group 2B4EDB74-5842-40E4-8398-1567CD879127
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Name: FusionDrive
Size: 1239574347776 B (1.2 TB)
Free Space: 1235270975488 B (1.2 TB)
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+-< Physical Volume C4AEC50E-CA5A-4F01-A1D4-0E821B78488C
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| Index: 0
| Disk: disk3s2
| Status: Online
| Size: 239713435648 B (239.7 GB)
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+-< Physical Volume 1B357448-93BE-4D62-BB93-09E7E95A66DB
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Index: 1
Disk: disk2s2
Status: Online
Size: 999860912128 B (999.9 GB)
Copy the ID Shown for Logical Volume Group diskutil coreStorage createVolume 2B4EDB74-5842-40E4-8398-1567CD879127 jhfs+ FusionDrive 100% Result: Started CoreStorage operation Waiting for Logical Volume to appear Formatting file system for Logical Volume Initialized /dev/rdisk1 as a 1 TB HFS Plus volume with a 98304k journal Mounting disk Core Storage LV UUID: 3D2C216E-D29B-4EF2-AE8F-58CCDA0488FE Core Storage disk: disk1 Finished CoreStorage operation Now the Fusion Drive has been already created.
7. The Final Step was to restore the backup image. So I used Carbon Copy Cloner again to restore the image to my Fusion Drive iostat disk0 disk1 1
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Comments
My question is about one of the screenshots showing Storage tab of About This Mac app.
How come it displays Fusion Drive as two disks with identical graphs? We know that apps see FD as one volume, and it surely makes no sense to display identical graphs for two different drives.
I've assembled Fusion Drive per your instructions and it shows up as one volume in About This Mac.
Any thoughts?
some how strange. anyway it is fully functional as expected.
inside all apps and finder it is still one drive only
That's one thing that bothers me as some people see migration happening and others don't.
I read the post and he doesn't provide step-by-step guide, he just writes "I ran this command" presuming the reader knows what attributes to run it with.
and, how are you taking the backups of the FusionDrive now? Do you do anything different when compared to having only one drive?
Backup to Disk Image
and then recover from Disk Image.
For all Apps the FusionDrive is just one single Drive
Copy the image below the title of this article to clipboard ( right click - copy image )
go to the info of ur Hard Drive ( cmd + i ) click the icon and paste ( cmd + v )
u can also drag the image from the website and drop directly on the info icon as described above
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