OS X :: Hard Drive Partition Error - POSIX Report Directory Does Not Exist
Sep 9, 2010
I was trying to back up my MacBook to a WD 1TB external drive. It has already been used on my wife's iMac running OSX Tiger. It has had no problems. When I plugged it into my MacBook, it started freaking out immediately, and slowly creating folder after folder on my desktop. Eventually I had 46 folders that were all named the name of the hard drive. I tried to repair disk, and erase disk and partition the disk - but none of them would work. With partitioning, I get the error message: Partition failed with error: POSIX report directory does not exist.
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Sep 25, 2009
I've done this many times before, and I think it's just a failing drive, but I wanted to check and see if anyone had successfully worked around this problem before. I have a 16GB Transcend flash drive, and it stopped working last week. When I connect it to a computer, I get the message that I have inserted a disk that cannot be recognized. Disk Utility only recognizes the device, but no volumes (see attachment #2). When I try to format it, I get an error that says it Can't allocate memory (see attachment #1).
Anyone recognize this? I can send it back and get the drive replaced under warranty, just wanted to see if there were any other thoughts.
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So my mac's hard drive went out. So I bought a new one that is 160GB. I'm trying to partition it in Disk Utility, but there are a couple of problems I've run into. First, It's saying there is 1.2TB of space. I guess it's possible Western Digital put a wrong label on their drive, but that seems a bit unlikely, doesn't it? The second issue is that when I go to actually partition it, I get an error that says, "Partition failed with the error: input/output error". I have no idea what's going on, or what I should do
I'm using a Macbook w/ 10.4.11 (although strangely, that disk that came with my computer says 10.4.9, not sure how much of a difference that will make...). It is a 2.16GHz, Intel Core 2 Duo, w/ 1GB of ram, if it helps.
Also, when I'm trying to partition, the settings I'm using are:
1 Partition, Formatted w/ Mac OS Extended (Journaled), & GUID Partition Table
Info:Macbook
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I have messed around with using bootcamp and and disk utlity to create partitions for Ubuntu. I decided to erase the extra partition and give all the space back to my macintosh HD. I go to the partition tab in disk utility and drag the macintosh box to fill the whole box and then hit apply. After a few moments I then recieve the error saying: "Partition failed with the error: Couldn’t modify partition map because file system verification failed." I ran a verfiy disk on my macintosh hd and then recieve these errors:
Invalid volume file count
(It should be 545026 instead of 544821)
Invalid volume directory count
(It should be 140857 instead of 140673)
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Error: This disk needs to be repaired using the Recovery HD. Restart your computer, holding down the Command key and the R key until you see the Apple logo. When the Mac OS X Utilities window appears, choose Disk Utility. I then command R while boot and repair the drive. Tried resizing the partition again and same error. I have spent some time googling what people have done but find this problem occuring with alot of people upgrading to Lion or something. I'm on a 2011-late macbook pro that came with lion. I have tried things such as doing the Lion restore and booting in command S and typing fsck -fy for a repair. Nothing work.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3), Macbook Pro late 2011
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I got the this Error while trying to partition my hard drive after deleting my boot camp partition and then trying to make my Macintosh HD the full 250gb... Partition failed with the error: Could not modify partition map because filesystem verification failed. After I got this error I went to the "first aid" tab in disk utility and tried to "repair disk permissions" then try it and got the same error...
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I have just recently deleted my Bootcamp partition in Disk Utilities, and now im trying to increase the partition size of my Macintosh HD drive. When i go to the partition map and try to increase the size. The same error always appears. "Could not modify partition map because filesystem verification failed" I have attached an Image of what my partition map looks like right now.
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When attempting to use the Software Update, I get the following message: "POSIX Error - Cannot allocate memory." Also, when attempting to access Safari, the following message is displayed:Other suggestions previously have not worked, such as Preferences, Disk Warrior, etc.Are there any others that may be recent or ground breaking? Is it possible that Tiger is simply at the end of its lifecycle?
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I'm trying to set-up a partition on my drive but I keep getting an error telling me there isn't enough room on the drive when clearly I have plenty of room. Pic attached.
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I have an aluminum unibody macbook from October 2008. I'm looking to upgrade the 160 GB hard drive inside to a 500 GB one I'm considering from Newegg. Would it be possible to migrate/copy/clone the entire contents of my current hard drive to the 500 GB one? I also have a section of my current hard drive partitioned for Bootcamp. Would this affect my ability to transfer everything over?
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Jul 30, 2009
I had my hard drive partitioned into 2, where one was mac the other windows xp. I received this macbook as a gift from my sister so i wanted to reformat everything into mac. I popped in the Mac OS x install cd and just installed it. Now there is two hard drives and I am not able to re-partition it where i can bring it back to one again...I was suppose to delete windows first before re-formating my macbook.
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MacBook Pro
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I have a Lacie 1TB external drive. I'm trying to create another partition on it using Disk Utility so that I can use one of the partitions for Time Machine. When I go to add another partition, or even just resize the existing one, I get an error saying drive must be HPFS+ with Journaling enabled. It is. I've seen reference to this error in searches, but have not found a solution. Is there a fix for this, or another tool that I can use to re-partition my drive without wiping out existing partition? I have about 450GB worth of data on the drive that I might be able to store somewhere else temporarily, I would just prefer not to have to go through that....
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I was having kernel panics quite often before 10.5.2, and they don't seem to have stopped even after the upgrade. Someone mentioned that it might have been the aftermarket RAM I installed (which is fully up to apple specs btw). But I noticed something on the error report that leads me to think it might be my M-Audio firewire external sound card instead. I've highlighted the spot in red.
Quote:
Sat Feb 23 16:18:06 2008
panic(cpu 3 caller 0x001A8C8A): Kernel trap at 0x7373694b, type 14=page fault, registers:
CR0: 0x8001003b, CR2: 0x00000045, CR3: 0x01004000, CR4: 0x00000660
EAX: 0x0c7cd3c0, EBX: 0x00000000, ECX: 0x00000000, EDX: 0x09bcca40
CR2: 0x00000045, EBP: 0x92ed3d18, ESI: 0x0a332800, EDI: 0x09e2b000
EFL: 0x00010202, EIP: 0x7373694b, CS: 0x00000008, DS: 0x09600010
Error code: 0x00000002
Backtrace, Format - Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x92ed3ad8 : 0x12b0e1 (0x457024 0x92ed3b0c 0x13321a 0x0)
0x92ed3b28 : 0x1a8c8a (0x460550 0x7373694b 0xe 0x45fd00)
0x92ed3c08 : 0x19eb67 (0x92ed3c20 0x80 0x92ed3d18 0x7373694b)
0x92ed3c18 : 0x7373694b (0xe 0x48 0x92ed0010 0x420010)
0x92ed3d18 : 0x9888eb03 (0x9e2b000 0x293 0x92ed3d48 0xffffffc3)
0x92ed3d88 : 0x9889331a (0x9e2b000 0x0 0x0 0x92ed3e1c)
0x92ed3e38 : 0x9887ff72 (0x9e2b000 0x0 0x202 0x694c1000)
0x92ed3e58 : 0x98869196 (0xa133c80 0x972d180 0xa632cee7 0xdf3d8d0)
0x92ed3e88 : 0x98868f77 (0x694c1000 0x1 0x25cf 0xdf3d8d8)
0x92ed3ea8 : 0x988694dd (0x694c1000 0x0 0x0 0x1008e78)
0x92ed3ec8 : 0x98866e5b (0x694c1000 0x988ac1f8 0x92ed3ef8 0x402cf1)
0x92ed3ef8 : 0x41f105 (0x694c1000 0xa2e7000 0x0 0x0)
0x92ed3f48 : 0x98866fa7 (0x9b559c0 0x98866d2e 0xa2e7000 0x0)
0x92ed3f78 : 0x13ea34 (0x694c1000 0x9cb6e60 0x1a236f 0xc5fa208)
0x92ed3fc8 : 0x19e93c (0x0 0x0 0x1a20b5 0xdf3d8b8)
Backtrace terminated-invalid frame pointer 0
Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.driver.AppleFWAudio(2.4.0fc8)@0x9885e000->0x988acfff
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireFamily(3.4.0)@0x61b000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireAVC(2.2.1)@0x9881f000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOAudioFamily(1.6.4b7)@0x920000
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task
Mac OS version:
9C31
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 9.2.0: Tue Feb 5 16:13:22 PST 2008; root:xnu-1228.3.13~1/RELEASE_I386
System model name: MacPro3,1 (Mac-F42C88C8)
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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