
macOS 12.4 now blocks all attempts to run First Aid on any volume or container on a disk containing an APFS backup volume, and the command tool fsck_apfs also refuses to oblige.

In the past, a variety of errors have been blamed for this failure, but it has also been possible to work around it by manually ejecting the volume or container you want to check. This problem persists, although currently it now seems confined to APFS backup volumes. The most serious problem with Disk Utility remains its manifest inability to run First Aid on some volumes and containers, in particular Time Machine backup stores. This article considers where Disk Utility has got in those six months, and whether it’s less frustrating and more useful, less than a month before Apple announces macOS 13.

Earlier this week, we updated to 12.4, which is getting close to the end of this cycle. If you must format a partition as exfat, then you can use gnome-disks (a.k.a.It’s exactly six months since I last looked at the many problems plaguing Monterey’s Disk Utility. The partition must be listed in the list of filesystems, but greyed out in this context. its perfectly safe to move or copy (since the internals of the filesystem are not affected by a move).the partition is a valid partition, and.No "required software" is listed, so it doesn't (yet) know about exfat-utils. Ubuntu 21.04 is already at util-linux v2.36 so this isn't an issue unless you're manually backporting.Īs of writing, GParted 1.2.0 is not yet in any version backports.įor GParted version below v1.2.0 (File System Support, exFAT currently doesn't have support in gparted (0.28.1) for anything other than moving or copying. There is also a requirement fo util-linux v2.18 and above.

Installing exfatprogs will uninstall exfat-utils. To use exFAT you must install the exfatprogs package (and NOT exfat-utils). For GParted version v1.2.0 and above (Ubuntu 21.10 and above)ĮxFAT support was added in version 1.2.0 of GParted.
