Here I have two Container disk, Container disk 1 has MACOS and MACOS-DATA, while the Container disk 2 has NewAPFS named volumes.
I want to remove NewAPFS and add that space onto MACOS. How to do that using disk utility ?
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 11.6
Be very certain the Container disk2 has not have the Mount Point attribute of /System attributed to it.
If it does not - in Disk Utility choose the Container disk2 and bottom left the small Minus ( -) sign and it will be removed.
The Space this volume occupied will be automatically made available to the the Operating System
The Beauty of the new APFS format is Partitioning is not longer required
You need to use the Partition button.
If the NewAPFS partition is after your macOS partition, you can remove it and then merge the free space into the first partition. It will destroy all data on NewAPFS.
If it is organized the other way around, you cannot merge them.
https://support.apple.com/guide/disk-utility/partition-a-physical-disk-dskutl14027/mac
Hi, by doing that, the container still remains, I cannot merge the container disk 2 space back into 1.
yes, its shows in order. Verified with the Pie chart as well in the partition function, I ended up erasing the whole disk and reinstall mac os.
Copy and Paste from that supplied link earlier
Apple File System (APFS) allocates disk space on demand. When a single APFS container (partition) has multiple volumes, the container’s free space is shared and can be allocated to any of the individual volumes as needed. Each volume uses only part of the overall container, so the available space is the total size of the container, minus the size of all volumes in the container.
Thought not as Bootcamp would have created a True Partition and not a Container.
So, if the previous suggestion regarding Remove Container from Apple does not work and BootCamp was not used to create this Container - the mystery continues.
The Scorched Earth approach may needed to be considered to regain the Full Drive Capacity.
Another screen shot would help me see this if you would please.
I removed newAPFS, and now the container disk still persists, it's not getting merged.
still container remains ::
Nowhere, they have mentioned about containers and merging them. its all about volumes they are talking, in the above link.
I have two partition, and its underlying volumes which are not merging. What you wrote is correct for a single container and volumes inside it. any idea what should i do ?
Perhaps if you explain how this New container was created we can figure out to remove it
it was created, using boot camp assistant , for a separate OS Partition.
Then, the only way to remove is it to use Bootcamp Assist to remove it. Any other method would require doing a Scorched Earth approach
Oddly, boot camp assist., doesnt recognize that partition,.
How to merge partition ?
