How can I add space from an unallocated disk to an existing partition?

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How can I add space from an unallocated disk to an existing partition?

I have a MacBook Pro (Mid 2014) installed with macOS Mojave.

I accidentally deleted one of the containers on my hard drive. Now it is only showing 249GB out of 500GBs.

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         249.6 GB   disk0s2

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +249.6 GB   disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume HD                      197.2 GB   disk1s1
   2:                APFS Volume PreBoot                 44.7 MB    disk1s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                516.5 MB   disk1s3
   4:                APFS Volume VM                      1.1 GB     disk1s4

also when tried with the diskutil resizeContainer command it gives the following error.

sudo diskutil apfs resizeContainer disk0s2 0

Started APFS operation
Error: -69743: The new size must be different than the existing size

Can anyone help with how I can allocate the remaining space to my primary partition.

Thanks in advance.

MacBook Pro Retina

Posted on Oct 9, 2019 6:14 AM

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twizzard

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Oct 9, 2019 10:37 PM in response to Sky_Bullet

You could try the GUI Disk Utility, select the disk, click partition button, change the allocation to the total of current partition + unallocated, e.g. 500 GB. However, when I tried the only way that I managed to do this was to delete the current partition and then create a new one with the same name. That does erase the contents, so be aware. In my case the previous content did not matter, which was great. If you need the current contents of that primary partition, be sure to copy them out before deleting and recreating the partition.

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