I have a question I have long wondered about...sorry for some of the descriptions as I don't know much about how a disk drive is laid out in Disk Utility!
I am running First Aid on my backup external drive, only because I heard some unique sounds from it that are likely nothing. It seems everything is fine so far, but here is my question - it's a 10TB disk if that matters - In Disk Utility, my backup drive shows as a drive with the name I gave the device, indented under that is a Container, indented under that is the name that Time Machine sees the drive as. I may not even be describing the 1st and 3rd properly, the point is it's 3 lines with successive indentations for the second and third line. I ran First aid on the top line, it finished successfully in about 5 seconds. I am just finishing running First aid on the second line, it has taken about 6-7 hours as it appears to be analyzing every snapshot one at a time (and there are 86 of them) - plus whatever else it's done. So when that finishes, assuming all is ok, is there any value in doing First Aid on the bottom line? If so, is that a long process or short one?
I am running First Aid on my backup external drive, only because I heard some unique sounds from it that are likely nothing. It seems everything is fine so far, but here is my question - it's a 10TB disk if that matters - In Disk Utility, my backup drive shows as a drive with the name I gave the device, indented under that is a Container, indented under that is the name that Time Machine sees the drive as. I may not even be describing the 1st and 3rd properly, the point is it's 3 lines with successive indentations for the second and third line. I ran First aid on the top line, it finished successfully in about 5 seconds. I am just finishing running First aid on the second line, it has taken about 6-7 hours as it appears to be analyzing every snapshot one at a time (and there are 86 of them) - plus whatever else it's done. So when that finishes, assuming all is ok, is there any value in doing First Aid on the bottom line? If so, is that a long process or short one?
