Missing HDD space after running diskutil commands
I was trying to resize my bootcamp partition and add a new partition as exFat to share between the two... I formatted my bootcamp partition, was unable to figure out how to merge it with my main macOS partition... After some searching, I came across : https://www.macobserver.com/tips/deep-dive/resize-your-apfs-container/
I followed the steps I thought I needed... using the command
sudo diskutil eraseVolume "Free Space" %noformat% /dev/disk0s4
for the appropriate disks... So far so good, or so I thought.
I entered the command
diskutil apfs resizeContainer disk0s2 0
But recieved the following:
Started APFS operation Error: -69771: The target disk is too small for this operation
After running the diskutil list command, I realized that I can't even find the space I erased earlier anywhere... Can someone help me figure out how to reclaim that space? I do have a backup of data on time machine; however, someone else is experiencing a similar issue, and they did a clean install and their space is still missing as well. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8291525
I'm not one to usually post or ask for help, I tend to search and find solutions out there, but I'm not having any luck. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Any info needed, I'll be happy to provide.
Below is the results of disktil list
/dev/disk0 (internal):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme 500.3 GB disk0
1: EFI EFI 314.6 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_APFS Container disk1 423.0 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_HFS XPlatform 15.9 GB disk0s3
4: Apple_Boot 134.2 MB disk0s4
5: Apple_KernelCoreDump 655.4 MB disk0s5
/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: APFS Container Scheme - +423.0 GB disk1 Physical Store disk0s2
1: APFS Volume Macintosh HD 319.3 GB disk1s1
2: APFS Volume Preboot 22.4 MB disk1s2
3: APFS Volume Recovery 509.8 MB disk1s3
4: APFS Volume VM 1.1 GB disk1s4
/dev/disk2 (disk image):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: CCCOMA_X64FRE_EN-US... +4.7 GB disk2
As you can see, I'm missing about 60 gb, which is the amount of space I was attempting to free up.
EDIT:
Results for the fdisk /dev/disk0 command:
Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 7602/255/63 [122138133 sectors]
Sector size: 4096 bytes
Signature: 0xAA55
Starting Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [ start - size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 1 - 122138132] <Unknown ID>
2: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused
3: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused
4: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused
Results for the gpt -r show /dev/disk0 command:
start size index contents
0 1 PMBR
1 1 Pri GPT header
2 4 Pri GPT table
6 76800 1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
76806 103270257 2 GPT part - 7C3457EF-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
103347063 3873482 3 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
107220545 32768 4 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
107253313 2441407
109694720 160000 5 GPT part - 5361644D-6163-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
109854720 12283408
122138128 4 Sec GPT table
122138132 1 Sec GPT header
EDIT 2: Ran the commands from macOS Recovery and the results were a bit different, so I thought I'd share that as well.
-bash-3.2# csrutil disable
Successfully disabled System Integrity Protection. Please restart the machine for the changes to take effect.
-bash-3.2# fdisk /dev/disk0
Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 520/128/63 [4194024 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
Starting Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [ start - size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 1 - 4194023] <Unknown ID>
2: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused
3: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused
4: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused
-bash-3.2# gpt -r show /dev/disk0
start size index contents
0 1 PMBR
1 1 Pri GPT header
2 32 Pri GPT table
34 6
40 3931800 1 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
3931840 262151
4193991 32 Sec GPT table
4194023 1 Sec GPT header
EDIT 3: Original results recreated.
sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 7602/255/63 [122138133 sectors]
Sector size: 4096 bytes
Signature: 0xAA55
Starting Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [ start - size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 1 - 122138132] <Unknown ID>
2: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused
3: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused
4: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused
sudo gpt -r show /dev/disk0
start size index contents
0 1 PMBR
1 1 Pri GPT header
2 4 Pri GPT table
6 76800 1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
76806 103270257 2 GPT part - 7C3457EF-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
103347063 3873482 3 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
107220545 32768 4 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
107253313 2441407
109694720 160000 5 GPT part - 5361644D-6163-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
109854720 12283408
122138128 4 Sec GPT table
122138132 1 Sec GPT header
EDIT 4:
Results after running sudo diskutil erasevolume free n disk0s5
diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme 500.3 GB disk0
1: EFI EFI 314.6 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_APFS Container disk1 423.0 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_HFS XPlatform 15.9 GB disk0s3
4: Apple_Boot 134.2 MB disk0s4
/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: APFS Container Scheme - +423.0 GB disk1
Physical Store disk0s2
1: APFS Volume Macintosh HD 307.6 GB disk1s1
2: APFS Volume Preboot 22.4 MB disk1s2
3: APFS Volume Recovery 509.8 MB disk1s3
4: APFS Volume VM 1.1 GB disk1s4
sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 7602/255/63 [122138133 sectors]
Sector size: 4096 bytes
Signature: 0xAA55
Starting Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [ start - size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 1 - 122138132] <Unknown ID>
2: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused
3: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused
4: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused
sudo gpt -r show /dev/disk0
start size index contents
0 1 PMBR
1 1 Pri GPT header
2 4 Pri GPT table
6 76800 1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
76806 103270257 2 GPT part - 7C3457EF-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
103347063 3873482 3 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
107220545 32768 4 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
107253313 14884815
122138128 4 Sec GPT table
122138132 1 Sec GPT header
EDIT 5: Command results once again.
diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme 500.3 GB disk0
1: EFI EFI 314.6 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_APFS Container disk1 438.9 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot 134.2 MB disk0s3
/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: APFS Container Scheme - +438.9 GB disk1
Physical Store disk0s2
1: APFS Volume Macintosh HD 307.6 GB disk1s1
2: APFS Volume Preboot 22.4 MB disk1s2
3: APFS Volume Recovery 509.8 MB disk1s3
4: APFS Volume VM 1.1 GB disk1s4
sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 7602/255/63 [122138133 sectors]
Sector size: 4096 bytes
Signature: 0xAA55
Starting Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [ start - size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 1 - 122138132] <Unknown ID>
2: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused
3: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused
4: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused
sudo gpt -r show /dev/disk0
start size index contents
0 1 PMBR
1 1 Pri GPT header
2 4 Pri GPT table
6 76800 1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
76806 107143739 2 GPT part - 7C3457EF-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
107220545 32768 3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
107253313 14884815
122138128 4 Sec GPT table
122138132 1 Sec GPT header
EDIT 6: Someome kindly pointed out that I had not shared my end goal. Am now looking to have one drive with the full 500gb available and then go from there to establishing a bootcamp partition and then an additional exFat partition that can be shared between the two OS!
EDIT 7: All issues have been resolved!
The folks at Apple seem to be operating under a paradigm where no drive space is ever unallocated. Therefore, when System Integrity Protection (SIP) is enabled, the macOS operating system prevents execution of any utilities or commands which could report the location of lost space on system drives. Your Mac uses a single
physical system drive named /dev/disk0.
System drives generally contains two types of partition tables. The first is the Master Boot Record (MBR) table and the second is the GUID Partition Table (GPT). The command fdisk dumps the contents of the MBR table, while the command gpt partially dumps the contents of the GPT. To used these command on a system drive, you need to either disable SIP or execute the commands while booted to macOS Recovery. The commands you need to enter are given below
fdisk /dev/disk0
gpt -r show /dev/disk0
The gpt commands prints a table of the space occupied by each partition. The table also prints unallocated space. Generally, you need to know which partitions are located before the lost (unallocated) space you wish to recover. Usually, the diskutil command can then used to recovery this space. Although, other commands such as fdisk, gpt and gdisk can also be used.
Note: Generally the identifier produced by
disktuiloutput contains the index for a given partition. This is not alway true. You may need to consider other output from both thediskutilandgptcommands before matching a partition index with an identifier.
If you could post the output from the above commands, then someone (or I) could help with the correct commands to repair your Mac.
Update 1
You can erase the Apple_KernelCoreDump` partition by executing the command given below. The result will a block of free space the the end of your drive. The size of this block will be about 61 GB.
sudo diskutil erasevolume free n disk0s5
Beyond this change, I am not sure what to post. I need to know how you want the drive partitioned. So far, you have mentioned partitions for ExFat and Windows. Currently you have Apple_HFS and Apple_Boot partitions. You can not merge the free space back to the APFS container until these partitions are erased. Also, if you are going to reinstall Windows, you probably should state the model/year of your Mac and the version of Windows.
Update 2
The following command will return all free space back to the APFS partition.
sudo diskutil erasevolume free n disk0s3
sudo diskutil apfs resizecontainer disk0s2 0
If the above commands work, are you then going to attempt to install Windows 10 through the use of the Boot Camp Assistant? Other users have reported problems using the Boot Camp Assistant when the internal physical drive has an APFS partition.