I have an 8 TB disk in my Mac. I had 2 APFS containers on it (disk7 and disk8). After deleting APFS container disk8, I get this:
The space that the deleted APFS container disk 8 used up is lost and not reclaimed by APFS container disk 7.
I tried in terminal:
"diskutil apfs resizecontainer disk5s1 0",
but no result. I can only use 4.3 TB of my 8 TB disk.
How can I make container disk 7 use all 8 TB?
Use the Partition tab to resize the preceding container into the free space of the deleted container.
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/disk-utility/dskutl14027/mac
After several days of unsuccessful searching for a solution that allows
to free up the unused space on the Disk and make it available for
storage I gave up and:
I cloned all Data from the disk to another disk. Then I reformated the
whole disk and copied the data back to its original disk. It took about
3-4 days of nonstop Carbon Copy Cloner. This is the year 2021. This is
MacOS Big Sur by Apple. This is so disappointing and frustrating what Apple is doing with forcing new technology onto customers and the leaving them lost in the woods. What a disaster. What a piece of Cr*p Apple has become.
I think even Windows 7 was able to create a new partition from free space and then merge the partitions into one without having to clone data from one partition to the other.
Windows 7 was in 2009.
There is no "preceding Container" in the Partition Tab. The Partition Tab only shows one partition, which has 4.3 TB and not 8TB
MacOS Reclaim free space on Disk for APFS container after deleting APFS Container
