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Which is the correct partition type for boot OS X?
The correct partition type of a Boot OS X partition is 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC (like a Recovery HD partition) and 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC for a CoreStorage partition. Update: gpt behaves strange because the partition table contains an MBR instead of an PMBR – the MBR has to be replaced by a PMBR:
Why did I change the partition type to APFS?
It’s unclear why the partition type was changed. On the original boot drive (disk0) Yosemite is installed. On the second “broken” drive (diisk1) an APFS partition was detected with the sudo dd if=/dev/disk1s2 count=3 | hexdump method from the linked answer.
What is the partition type of Yosemite OS?
The issue was fixed based on this answer: OS volume shows as type ‘FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF’ It’s unclear why the partition type was changed. On the original boot drive (disk0) Yosemite is installed.
What’s the partition type on a MacBook Pro?
Took the drive out and plugged it in to another Macbook and it didn’t mount the MacOS partition.
Which is the correct GUID for APFs partitions?
The proper GUID of APFS partitions is 7C3457EF-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC. The default pMBR was replaced with an old-style MBR, probably by the Linux installation! Your boot system (in Internet Recovery Mode) seems pretty old. Any disk or partition verification executed with diskutil may yield some bogus result.
Is there way to restore APFS partition on Mac?
Any disk or partition verification executed with diskutil may yield some bogus result. In no case try to repair anything with diskutil! To get your APFS partition back remove partition disk0s2 and restore it with the proper type: Your Mac should be able to boot despite the MBR.
What’s the name of the partition on my computer?
Last night, everything was normal, but when I woke up, my data partition looked like this: It used to be named Macintosh HD (like the drive) and now it has lost its name and the partition type turned into FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF . diskutil info /dev/disk1s2 reports
What did my data partition look like last night?
The repair aborted with the request to format and restore the whole drive, but I could use it like before (so maybe unrelated). Last night, everything was normal, but when I woke up, my data partition looked like this: