Hello,
I ran boot camp assistant to remove my windows partition (to reinstall windows 10) but after some seconds it showed me an error and told me to run first aid from disk utility. I did and there was no error in first aid analysis. now by running the diskutil in terminal I see a "free space" without identifier. I would be grateful if you help me to attach this free space to my main partition.
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 11.1
We need to erase the three parts, using
diskutil eraseVolume jhfs+ BC1 disk0s3 (this may not work since your CS volume is offline).
diskutil eraseVolume jhfs+ BC2 disk0s4
diskutil eraseVolume jhfs+ BC3 disk0s5
diskutil mergePartitions jhfs+ BCMP disk0s3 disk0s5
This should merge the free space in disk0s3
At this point we can use either BC Assistant or diskutil to put all the space back in the APFS Container.
We need to erase the three parts, using
diskutil eraseVolume jhfs+ BC1 disk0s3 (this may not work since your CS volume is offline).
diskutil eraseVolume jhfs+ BC2 disk0s4
diskutil eraseVolume jhfs+ BC3 disk0s5
diskutil mergePartitions jhfs+ BCMP disk0s3 disk0s5
This should merge the free space in disk0s3
At this point we can use either BC Assistant or diskutil to put all the space back in the APFS Container.
If you are running macOS Big Sur, you should not have disk0s[3,4,5], because BC Assistant does not support this layout. Was this disk manipulated using Disk Utility or another utility?
Hello Loner T, yes I have Big Sur and I only used Disk Utility, nothing else
Can Private and Files be erased? If yes, then the Free Space can be merged into the APFS Container.
Ok, I just moved my files from "Private" so I can erase it, should I do it with Disk Utility?
We need to remove disk0s3, disk0s4 and disk0s5. Do you have the data from disk0s3 and disk0s5 saved somewhere, before they are erased?
Ok I'm trying to get backup of disk0s5 too, meanwhile can I please ask what's the next step?
Thanks so much Loner T, it is solved finally
Excellent!
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