LAST WARNING: FROM HERE ON OUT THIS DELETES ALL OF THE DATA ON THE HFS+ LOGICAL VOLUME (but it doesn’t delete the recovery partition).ĭiskutil cs delete FOO - BAR - BIZ - BAZ, where FOO-BAR-BIZ-BAZ was your lvgUUID.

That’s the Logical Volume Group’s universally unique identifier, a.k.a. Using the mouse, copy the long alphanumeric string that’s on the third line of output after “Logical Volume Group”. (Maximize the terminal window that opens so it’s easier to see the output of the next step.)ĭiskutil cs list. From the Utilities menu of the “OS X Utilities” app, open Terminal.If you have gotten to this article you have probably already been into Disk Utility a few times already without success, so don’t open Disk Utility. Boot the recovery volume, which will take you to an OS X Utilities page that shows four options: “Restore From Time Machine Backup”, “Reinstall OS X”, “Get Help Online”, and “Disk Utility”.Only do this if you’re completely ready to just burn it all down to the ground and start over with a blank boot disk. The magic incantation that fixed it was inspired by instructions I found here: Recovery mode was OK but couldn’t erase the boot volume nor mount it via Disk Utility (I just got “Unable to delete the core storage logical volume”), so reinstalling seemed impossible.įortunately, I figured out how to do it, using some help from a StackExchange post I found. See below for the details. Nothing would make it boot normally again. My Mac Mini w/ Fusion Drive (that’s a hard disk and an SSD pretending to be a single volume for better performance) froze and wouldn’t boot.

Mac erasing disk failed