Allocate "free space" to the system disk

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Allocate "free space" to the system disk

Hi, I'd like to allocate "free space" (which is 199.6 GB) to the system disk. How can I do? In addition, this "free space" is not visible in the Disk Utility. Thanks to everyone who will help me!

% diskutil list

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI ⁨EFI⁩                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
                    (free space)                         199.6 GB   -
   2:                 Apple_APFS ⁨Container disk1⁩         100.5 GB   disk0s2
   3:       Microsoft Basic Data ⁨BOOTCAMP⁩                199.5 GB   disk0s3
   4:           Windows Recovery ⁨⁩                        565.2 MB   disk0s4

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +100.5 GB   disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume ⁨macOS Big Sur - Dati⁩    49.8 GB    disk1s1
   2:                APFS Volume ⁨Preboot⁩                 323.1 MB   disk1s2
   3:                APFS Volume ⁨Recovery⁩                613.6 MB   disk1s3
   4:                APFS Volume ⁨VM⁩                      1.1 MB     disk1s4
   5:                APFS Volume ⁨macOS Big Sur⁩           15.0 GB    disk1s5
   6:              APFS Snapshot ⁨com.apple.os.update-...⁩ 15.0 GB    disk1s5s1

MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 11.1

Posted on Dec 28, 2020 9:41 AM

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Answer 1

Barney-15E

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Dec 28, 2020 10:00 AM in response to Vokda

In Disk Utility, select the disk and the Partition button.

See if you can drag the handle from your macOS Big Sur into the Free Space and merge it.

If the free space is after the BOOTCAMP partition, you won't be able to merge the space into macOS Big Sur.

Partition a physical disk in Disk Utility on Mac - Apple Support

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Vokda Author

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Dec 28, 2020 12:42 PM in response to Vokda

Resolved! Here is the link of the solution: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/406962/how-to-make-remove-free-space-and-make-apfs-container-take-it-up/407055#407055

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Vokda Author

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Dec 28, 2020 10:10 AM in response to Barney-15E

Thanks for the reply! As you can see in the screenshot, the "free space" is not seen by Disk Utility. In fact my disk is 500 gb but I can only manage 300 gb.

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