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Mojave Can't Make Bigger Windows Partition even though there's free space

Hi


I'm trying to bootcamp my Macbook Air Early 2014. When I go to install Windows, Bootcamp doesn't let me adjust the partition size to anything other than 30GB or 36GB for Windows.


It says there is 85GB used but as you can see this doesn't seem to be the case with 121GB free?


Please help :)




MacBook Air

Posted on Jan 17, 2019 10:46 AM

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Posted on Jan 18, 2019 3:54 PM

Fixed by deleting time machine snapshots


Terminal (from Applications > Utilities), and then copy and paste this command and press Return:


sudo tmutil listlocalsnapshots /


The Terminal will show a list of local snapshots with names like 


com.apple.TimeMachine.2018-03-01-002010. To remove a snapshot:


  1. Copy and paste this command: sudo tmutil deletelocalsnapshots
  2. Type a space and then paste in the date portion of the snapshot.
  3. Press Return, and finally press Return.

Altogether, using the example snapshot above, that looks like:


sudo tmutil deletelocalsnapshots 2018-03-01-002010

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Question marked as Top-ranking reply

Jan 18, 2019 3:54 PM in response to Loner T

Fixed by deleting time machine snapshots


Terminal (from Applications > Utilities), and then copy and paste this command and press Return:


sudo tmutil listlocalsnapshots /


The Terminal will show a list of local snapshots with names like 


com.apple.TimeMachine.2018-03-01-002010. To remove a snapshot:


  1. Copy and paste this command: sudo tmutil deletelocalsnapshots
  2. Type a space and then paste in the date portion of the snapshot.
  3. Press Return, and finally press Return.

Altogether, using the example snapshot above, that looks like:


sudo tmutil deletelocalsnapshots 2018-03-01-002010

Mojave Can't Make Bigger Windows Partition even though there's free space

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