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What Should I Do With The Fusion Drive When I Factory Reset My Mac?

Hi, I have an iMac 2015 with a 2 TB Fusion Drive. My Mac has started to slow considerably and I would like to reset/reinstall MojaveHi there, you don't need to do anything with the Fusion Drive when you reset or reinstall your iMac, just boot into macOS Recovery Mode for the reinstallation task. ' If you erase your drives separately then you ought to combine your drivers before the reinstallation. Below are the command lines to create a fusion drive: To find out physical storage volumes: diskutil list To create Fusion drive: diskutil coreStorage create "Macintosh HD” /dev/disk0 /dev/ and start fresh. The question I have is: when I erase the HD do I need to do anything additional to take into account the 128 GB Fusion Drive? Or does the installer just count the volumes as the same?

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iBoysoft author Vain Rowe

Vain Rowe

Answered on Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Hi there, you don't need to do anything with the Fusion Drive when you reset or reinstall your iMac, just boot into macOS Recovery Mode for the reinstallation task. '

If you erase your drives separately then you ought to combine your drivers before the reinstallation. Below are the command lines to create a fusion drive:

To find out physical storage volumes:

diskutil list

To create Fusion drive:

diskutil coreStorage create "Macintosh HD” /dev/disk0 /dev/disk1

To create logical volume:

diskutil coreStorage createVolume lvgUUID JHFS+ “Macintosh HD” 100%

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