Increase Capacity / Quota size of APFS Volume

Hello,

I just created a Volume (NOT partition) and I specified 50GB quota size.

Apparently this is not enough to upgrade to new OS.

How Can I increase Capacity / Quota size of tis APFS Volume?

I would appreciate your support.

Best Regards,

Michal

iMac Pro, macOS 10.15

Posted on Aug 7, 2020 10:44 PM

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2 replies

Barbatian Author

Level 1

6 points

Aug 8, 2020 2:02 PM in response to Barney-15E

I'm an idiot. I didn't know how volumes work.

Thank you for the answer ;-)

Barney-15E

Level 10

121,874 points

Aug 8, 2020 7:32 AM in response to Barbatian

You can’t. Remove it and create a new one. Why did you set a quota?

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