Boot Camp Assistant Says Not Enough Space When There is Plenty of Space

I have over 80 GBs of space left on my SSD, but boot camp assistant keeps saying I don't have enough and that I need 42 GBs of space. I even created a blank FAT partition of 50 GBs, just to test it out, and when I rerun Boot Camp Assistant, it wants to remove the "Windows partition," even though it is NOT a windows partition. I'm on a 15" Macbook Pro from 2018, running Catalina 10.15.6.

MacBook Pro 15”, macOS 10.15

Posted on Sep 5, 2020 1:44 AM

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Posted on Sep 6, 2020 4:59 PM

  • Boot into Local Recovery using Command+R at boot.
  • Ensure that your APFS Container is not mounted.
  • Click on Utilities -> Terminal.
  • From the output of diskutil list, find the APFS Container disk number. Let us call it 'diskN'.
  • Run
    • fsck_apfs -s -o -y /dev/rdiskN


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