Hi,
I forgot the check the checkbox to upgrade to APFS during the installation of 10.13.
So my Macintosh HD drive is still on HFS+.
How can I do the upgrade to APFS now? I tried re-running the installer, but for some reason, the checkbox is not shown. I can of course reformat and start from scratch, but is there any in place APFS upgrade method for the main drive?
Thanks.
I converted an external drive to APFS via Disk Utility (right-click on the drive and there is an option to convert). Not sure if this is available for startup disks but worth a shot.
I'm testing this out and here is what I figured out:
1) Start up to recovery partition (Command + R)
2) Open Disk Utility
3) Select drive on the left side ("Macintosh HD")
4) Click on Edit menu and select "Convert to APFS"
It works when you're doing it from another boot disk, see reply below.
Still not clear to me what's upgradable or not. There are internal and external (USB) disks, but I also have "external" disks that are actually SSD disks in a PCIe card in my 2010 Mac Pro... Well, going to play a little bit more with it. Time Machine doesn't seem to work on APFS disks.
when i select “Convert to APFS” on my early 2012 MacBook Pro, the conversion fails and says “The operation couldn’t be completed. (com.apple.DiskManagement error -69853”
Time Machine (currently at least) backups to local and remote (e..g Time Capsule) drives differently.
For local disks is relies on hard linking directories and that is not supported by APFS (and was added to HFS in the first place for Time Machine). So your failure has a probalby easy explanation.
When talking to a Time Machine Server (e.g. Time Capsule) Time Machine stores the whole backup inside a sparsebundle disc image, this doesn't require the drive to support directory hard links (the sparebundle's filesystem can do that).
So there is an obvious and trival route forward, but who knows what Apple's plans are in this area? (Rhetorical but if anybody does know and can tell please post!)
Any way to force create a recovery partitiion ? I have a dual booted Mac with an old 10.8 that still shows its recovery but cannot get a recovery partition setup for OS SIerra or now High Sierra
I misssed that check box totally! How I don't know. Had to do a second drive and format in APFS in stall 10.13 and then migrate to it then swap drives. Must have been an easier way! Can't wait for CCC beta that works on APFS boot volume!
DOH!
BTW I did convert a 6TB (x2 3TB) RAID Zero with no problems. I did have to convert SoftRAID RAIDS to Apple and uninstall SoftRAID however. CCC seems to work in 10.13 to copy across data disks from HFS+ to APFS data disk but it does scream at you that it isn't yet compatible. Won't work yet on boot drives, Mike Bombich is working on that for a beta for us Devs as we speak.
I see the same error when trying to convert from a recovery partition. I've raised a bug on this for further info and reference
I get the same error on my 2010 Mac Pro with an SSD on which I'm otherwise successfully running High Sierra.
If the HFS Plus volume is encrypted with FileVault: removal from Core Storage world might allow HFS-to-APFS conversion to succeed without that error.
First adventures with Apple File System (APFS) in pre-release High Sierra
It didn't even present the checkbox to me, because the installer log revealed it returned a -60000something error for the query to determine whether my USB 3.0 SATA drive is an SSD, which it is. I had to use Disk Utility from Recovery to convert an HFS+ installation after the fact.
I get the same thing. I did check the box during my first attempt to install High Sierra. It failed repeatedly giving me a file system error message. Unfortunately I was stuck in restart mode/try again mode with no option to deselect APFS (so it failed over and over. I also could not unmount or deletle the install image. I gave up and restored using CCC. I then tried it again and did not check the upgrade to APFS box. Install went fine. I then tried to convert in recovery mode and get the failed 69853 message. Glad I am not the only one, it was driving me crazy. I also tried enabling TRIM on the drive, no luck. Bug? reported.
Hi guys,
I've checked the box but it didnt migrate my filesystem, after it i went to the recovery panel and tried to run the utilitie and receive again an error, after going inside the hfs_convert.log i've found the following erro, anyone know how to fix it?
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Mon Jul 3 01:47:36 2017: Converting extents B-tree
hfs_insert_extents:1358: cnid 0x7f7781 / obj_id 0x7f7781 is not a valid inode. ignoring orphaned file extents.
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hfs_insert_extents:1358: cnid 0x98d391 / obj_id 0x98d391 is not a valid inode. ignoring orphaned file extents.
hfs_insert_extents:1358: cnid 0x992cd9 / obj_id 0x992cd9 is not a valid inode. ignoring orphaned file extents.
apfs_hfs_convert: hfs_to_apfs: hfs_offset=390162075648, phys_offset=390162075648, device=0 is outside the APFS space
Conversion failed! /BuildRoot/Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/apfs_executables/apfs-687.0.0.1.7/hfs/hfs_vol.c:1414 slice=0 phase=9 location=113 error=-125
