![]() I then tried deleting the volumes individually ( diskutil apfs deleteVolume /dev/disk2s1) after five minutes or so I got "Error: -69888: Couldn't unmount disk". I then tried deleting the Container ( diskutil apfs deleteContainer /dev/disk2) this failed at the point at which it tried to unmount the volumes. I can ctrl-c out of this but the disk remains encrypted. Nothing seems to happen for several hours. ![]() I tried decrypting the volume ( diskutil apfs decryptVolume /dev/disk2s1 -user UUID) it accepts the password and says it's decrypting in the background but won't return me to the command line. There's an APFS container (disk2) with four volumes (disk2s1 to disk2s4). ![]() When I tried just running the Mojave install from a USB drive, it got to the point of prompting me for a password for the drive (it takes several minutes for the prompt to come up from the point I click Unlock.) and then just seems to hang, as if it's unable to decrypt the drive. However I can't wipe the APFS-formatted drive - each method I try I get a different setback. If I try to use Disk Utility from Recovery mode or a USB boot drive, anything I try to do with the APFS drive hangs Disk Utility, so I'm working from the Terminal in Recovery mode.Īt this point all I want to do is wipe the drive so I can install Mojave from scratch. If I boot into Single User mode I can't run fsck without it throwing up an endless loop of errors to do with spaceman_freed. (I can enter the Filevault password but the progress bar gets to 100% and then stalls.
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