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Partition issues

I recently removed my Windows 10 software as I wasn't using it anymore. A few weeks ago I realized I never fully reset my storage / the partition. When I go into the disk utility application to remove the partition I get the following results. then once I hit apply, (after taking out the "free space" partition), I get an error that says "Operation failed... An internal error has occurred and the disk for one of the specified operations could not be found. This may be a temporary issue, try again."


I have reinstalled the Mac OS and I cannot connect to the Internet Recovery service for some reason - so I don't think I'll be able to use terminal inputs to solve this problem. I also don't have access to any physical discs used to install windows or partition because my Ex helped me set it up and we are not on speaking terms.


Any ideas?

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.13

Posted on Sep 25, 2020 7:19 PM

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Sep 26, 2020 1:46 PM in response to Loner T

Here's that output:


/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     61.0 GB  disk0s2

  3:      Windows Recovery             486.5 MB  disk0s3


/dev/disk1 (synthesized):

  #:            TYPE NAME          SIZE    IDENTIFIER

  0:   APFS Container Scheme -           +61.0 GB  disk1

                 Physical Store disk0s2

  1:        APFS Volume Macintosh HD      43.5 GB  disk1s1

  2:        APFS Volume Preboot         28.4 MB  disk1s2

  3:        APFS Volume Recovery        519.1 MB  disk1s3

  4:        APFS Volume VM           2.1 GB   disk1s4


/dev/disk2 (external, physical):

  #:            TYPE NAME          SIZE    IDENTIFIER

  0:   GUID_partition_scheme            *62.0 GB  disk2

  1:            EFI EFI           209.7 MB  disk2s1

  2:     Apple_CoreStorage USB30FD         61.7 GB  disk2s2

  3:         Apple_Boot Boot OS X        134.2 MB  disk2s3


/dev/disk3 (external, virtual):

  #:            TYPE NAME          SIZE    IDENTIFIER

  0:         Apple_HFS USB30FD        +61.3 GB  disk3

                 Logical Volume on disk2s2

                 3EA11871-0745-4ADF-8BF0-2A3F918F028D

                 Unlocked Encrypted

Sep 26, 2020 8:43 PM in response to Loner T

Started erase on disk0s3

Unmounting disk

Finished erase on disk0

Hayleys-MBP-2:~ hayleytaylor$ diskutil apfs resizeContainer disk1 0g

Started APFS operation

Aligning grow delta to 60,107,501,568 bytes and targeting a new physical store size of 121,123,069,952 bytes

Determined the maximum size for the targeted physical store of this APFS Container to be 121,122,041,856 bytes

Resizing APFS Container designated by APFS Container Reference disk1

The specific APFS Physical Store being resized is disk0s2

Verifying storage system

Using live mode

Performing fsck_apfs -n -x -l /dev/disk0s2

Checking volume

Checking the container superblock

Checking the EFI jumpstart record

Checking the space manager

Checking the object map

Checking the APFS volume superblock

Checking the object map

Checking the fsroot tree

Checking the snapshot metadata tree

Checking the extent ref tree

Checking the snapshots

Checking snapshot 1 of 1

Checking the APFS volume superblock

Checking the object map

Checking the fsroot tree

Checking the snapshot metadata tree

Checking the extent ref tree

Checking the snapshots

Checking the APFS volume superblock

Checking the object map

Checking the fsroot tree

Checking the snapshot metadata tree

Checking the extent ref tree

Checking the snapshots

Checking the APFS volume superblock

Checking the object map

Checking the fsroot tree

Checking the snapshot metadata tree

Checking the extent ref tree

Checking the snapshots

Verifying allocated space

The volume /dev/disk0s2 appears to be OK

Storage system check exit code is 0

Growing APFS Physical Store disk0s2 from 61,015,568,384 to 121,123,069,952 bytes

Modifying partition map

Growing APFS data structures

Finished APFS operation

Sep 27, 2020 11:28 AM in response to htaylor2

Excellent! Please post back, if you run into any further issues.


Be aware that installing W10 on this Mac is painful, due to the process used. If you do need to install W10, it would require about ~60Gb (42-48 Gb W10 + 10Gb W10 installer) to make it work. W8 is a bit easier, but MacOS Mojave and Catalina do not support it.

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