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Bootcamp doesn‘t appear anymore and can‘t be deleted

Dear community


I had a windows bootcamp installed on my macbook but lately it doesn‘t show up anymore. I didn‘t delete it but neither does it show up in the disk utility nor in the terminal using the „diskutil list“ command. I would like to delete the bootcamp in order to get the „lost“ space back. Thank you in advance for any help and hints!


diskutil list

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):

   #:             TYPE NAME           SIZE     IDENTIFIER

   0:    GUID_partition_scheme             *121.3 GB   disk0

   1:             EFI EFI            209.7 MB   disk0s1

   2:          Apple_APFS Container disk1      80.4 GB   disk0s2

   3:     Apple_KernelCoreDump              655.4 MB   disk0s3


/dev/disk1 (synthesized):

   #:             TYPE NAME           SIZE     IDENTIFIER

   0:    APFS Container Scheme -            +80.4 GB   disk1

                  Physical Store disk0s2

   1:         APFS Volume Macintosh HD       13.4 GB   disk1s1

   2:         APFS Volume Preboot          46.0 MB   disk1s2

   3:         APFS Volume Recovery         509.7 MB   disk1s3

   4:         APFS Volume VM            1.1 GB    disk1s4



MacBook Pro 13", macOS 10.14

Posted on Jul 13, 2019 2:43 AM

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Posted on Jul 13, 2019 4:42 AM

You should not have the ‘KernelCoreDump’ partition on a public macOS release. If you are on a public release, then this can be deleted. Run


diskutil eraseVolume free free disk0s3

diskutil apfs resizeContainer disk1 0g

diskutil list


and post the output.

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Jul 13, 2019 2:09 PM in response to Loner T

diskutil list

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):

   #:             TYPE NAME           SIZE     IDENTIFIER

   0:    GUID_partition_scheme             *121.3 GB   disk0

   1:             EFI EFI            209.7 MB   disk0s1

   2:          Apple_APFS Container disk1      80.4 GB   disk0s2

   3:     Apple_KernelCoreDump              655.4 MB   disk0s3


/dev/disk1 (synthesized):

   #:             TYPE NAME           SIZE     IDENTIFIER

   0:    APFS Container Scheme -            +80.4 GB   disk1

                  Physical Store disk0s2

   1:         APFS Volume Macintosh HD       13.4 GB   disk1s1

   2:         APFS Volume Preboot          46.0 MB   disk1s2

   3:         APFS Volume Recovery         509.7 MB   disk1s3

   4:         APFS Volume VM            1.1 GB    disk1s4

Jul 14, 2019 2:02 AM in response to Loner T

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):

   #:             TYPE NAME           SIZE     IDENTIFIER

   0:    GUID_partition_scheme             *121.3 GB   disk0

   1:             EFI EFI            209.7 MB   disk0s1

   2:          Apple_APFS Container disk1      121.1 GB   disk0s2


/dev/disk1 (synthesized):

   #:             TYPE NAME           SIZE     IDENTIFIER

   0:    APFS Container Scheme -            +121.1 GB   disk1

                  Physical Store disk0s2

   1:         APFS Volume Macintosh HD       13.7 GB   disk1s1

   2:         APFS Volume Preboot          46.0 MB   disk1s2

   3:         APFS Volume Recovery         509.7 MB   disk1s3

   4:         APFS Volume VM            1.1 GB    disk1s4

Bootcamp doesn‘t appear anymore and can‘t be deleted

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