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I am not able to mount System Volume (root) using APFS. I only see my Data Volume.
$ mkdir /tmp/snapshotbackup_root
$ mount_apfs -s com.apple.TimeMachine.2019-10-29-174444.local / /tmp/snapshotbackup_root
$ df -h /tmp/snapshotbackup_root
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on
com.apple.TimeMachine.2019-10-30-121116.local@/dev/disk1s3 223Gi 97Gi 115Gi 46% 1904164 2340358076 0% /private/tmp/snapshotbackup_root
As you can see, it only mounts /dev/disk1s3
, I am unable to mount the System Volume which is /dev/disk1s1
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$ mount_apfs -s com.apple.TimeMachine.2019-10-29-174444.local@/dev/disk1s1 / /tmp/snapshotbackup_root
mount_apfs: volume could not be mounted: No such file or directory
Time Machine can mount it as seen below
$ df -h "/Volumes/com.apple.TimeMachine.localsnapshots/Backups.backupdb/MacBook Pro 840 G3/2019-10-29-174444/OSX"*
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on
com.apple.TimeMachine.2019-10-29-174444.local@/dev/disk1s1 223Gi 10Gi 115Gi 9% 481433 2341780807 0% /Volumes/com.apple.TimeMachine.localsnapshots/Backups.backupdb/MacBook Pro 840 G3/2019-10-29-174444/OSX
com.apple.TimeMachine.2019-10-29-174444.local@/dev/disk1s3 223Gi 96Gi 115Gi 46% 1899738 2340362502 0% /Volumes/com.apple.TimeMachine.localsnapshots/Backups.backupdb/MacBook Pro 840 G3/2019-10-29-174444/OSX – data
Why does this work? – Pimp Juice IT – 2019-10-31T22:12:49.203