Boot Camp The startup disk does not have enough space to be partitioned

Mac Pro (Late 2013)

OS: Catalina 10.15.3


I'm trying to install Windows 10 on my Mac pro using Boot Camp Assistant, but I keep getting the same error that says "The startup disk does not have enough space to be partitioned". It also says "You must have at least 42 GB of free space available", which is weird cause I have 76 GB available storage.


My Time machine is switched off and I have also tried sudo tmutil thinlocalsnapshots / 999999999999 in terminal, restarting my computer, but it is still not working. I would really appreciate if someone can help.

Mac Pro, macOS 10.15

Posted on Mar 20, 2020 7:12 PM

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Posted on Mar 20, 2020 7:43 PM

What you see is Free Space within the APFS Container. This is not the same as space that can be made available to a Windows partition.


To check the minimum size macOS can have, post the output of


diskutil apfs resizeContainer disk0s2 limits


from macOS Terminal.

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