Resizing Mac OS partition - macOS High Sierra
Hi I am having issues trying to resize my Mac OS partition, I previously had a very large recovery partition almost 100gb as a result of removing my linux installation, I since resized this to 650mb. The problem is I am unsure on how to increase the size of my main Mac OS partition as I have no experience with this new container disk stuff.
Here is what diskutil list shows:
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *251.0 GB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_APFS Container disk1 150.4 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_HFS Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3
/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: APFS Container Scheme - +150.4 GB disk1
Physical Store disk0s2
1: APFS Volume Mac OS 122.1 GB disk1s1
2: APFS Volume Preboot 20.3 MB disk1s2
3: APFS Volume Recovery 506.6 MB disk1s3
4: APFS Volume VM 1.1 GB disk1s4
As you can see I resized the Recovery HD partition but the container is still 150gb. I also tried the following command to try reduce the container size:
sudo diskutil apfs resizeContainer disk0s2 1g jhfs+ Media 0b
But I get the following error:
Error: -69605: There is not enough free space in the APFS Container for this operation
Additionaly within Disk Utility app if I view the partitions, it shows I have 99.6 GB of "Free space" but I am unable to resize the Mac OS partition as previously mentioned.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, Thank you
Your Recovery HD is a leftover of a previous system version and probably unwanted.
High Sierra's recovery partition is inside the container:
3: APFS Volume Recovery 506.6 MB disk1s3
The command diskutil apfs resizeContainer disk0s2 1g jhfs+ Media 0b
tries to resize disk0s2 containing all subsequent APFS Volumes to 1 GB and reclaim all freed-up space (150.4 GB - 1 GB = 149.4 GB) for another HFS+ partition Media).
This will fail because the basic operating system (disk1s1) alone has a size of at least ~10 GB.
You probably want to do the following:
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Remove the old Recovery HD
diskutil eraseVolume "Free Space" %noformat% /dev/disk0s3
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Reclaim all available space for disk0s2:
diskutil apfs resizeContainer disk0s2 0