system apps removed in recovery terminal return

[ademUp]

Hi

I need to uninstall a bunch of system apps like Music, TV and News.

In the last version of the macOS I was able to do this via the recovery terminal, but now when I try it in BigSur, the apps appear to be deleted when I run rm -rf, but after rebooting, they have been added back.

I've tried disabling scrutils. I suspect there's some permission issue as when I try to mount /System and /Application as rw from a terminal I see this:

admin2@Ads-MacBook-Pro-2 ~ % sudo mount -uw / System / Applications
Password:
usage: mount [-dfruvw] [-o options] [-t external_type] special mount_point
mount [-adfruvw] [-t external_type]
mount [-dfruvw] special | mount_point

Anyone else having this issue?

Thanks

 

[MacUser2525]

Hi

I need to uninstall a bunch of system apps like Music, TV and News.

In the last version of the macOS I was able to do this via the recovery terminal, but now when I try it in BigSur, the apps appear to be deleted when I run rm -rf, but after rebooting, they have been added back.

I've tried disabling scrutils. I suspect there's some permission issue as when I try to mount /System and /Application as rw from a terminal I see this:

admin2@Ads-MacBook-Pro-2 ~ % sudo mount -uw / System / Applications
Password:
usage: mount [-dfruvw] [-o options] [-t external_type] special mount_point
mount [-adfruvw] [-t external_type]
mount [-dfruvw] special | mount_point

Anyone else having this issue?

Thanks

It has told you with the output that you are doing it wrong, if that is the copy and paste from the terminal you show us. It is telling you that you have not used the command properly, with the usage it shows you, as there is a space after each of the / before the directory name. This will not mount them as there is no System or Applications directory present on the machine, there are /System and /Applications. I would think you want to type with the no space.

 

[ademUp]

you are right

however, now it gives the following output, even with csrutil and csrutil authenticated-root disabled:

(this output is from the recovery terminal)

-bash-3.2# pwd
/Volumes/macOS
-bash-3.2# ls
.VolumeIcon.icns Library bin opt usr
.file System cores private var
.vol Users dev sbin xarts
Applications Volumes etc tmp
-bash-3.2# mount -uw /System /Volumes
mount: unknown special file or file system /System.
-bash-3.2# cd /

So I suspect that macOS has been tightened up in this revision. Still, I'm hopeful that there might be some way around this eventually.

 

[MacUser2525]

you are right

however, now it gives the following output, even with csrutil and csrutil authenticated-root disabled:

(this output is from the recovery terminal)

-bash-3.2# pwd
/Volumes/macOS
-bash-3.2# ls
.VolumeIcon.icns Library bin opt usr
.file System cores private var
.vol Users dev sbin xarts
Applications Volumes etc tmp
-bash-3.2# mount -uw /System /Volumes
mount: unknown special file or file system /System.
-bash-3.2# cd /

So I suspect that macOS has been tightened up in this revision. Still, I'm hopeful that there might be some way around this eventually.

Yes they do a different idea for it now, not sure much about it. But for the type error normally if something like a say USB drive. YOu would go with a line like this.

sudo mount -t vfat /dev/disk3s1

If you could determine the needed after the -t for that it may mount for you.