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It's a 2 TB drive, I made a 1.75tb and 250gb partition/container. Then deleted the 250gb container. I want the 1.75 Container to use the full drive capacity of 2TB again.
I have spent an hour on this, and I am so confused... Why won't disk utility let me do this easily?
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 12.6
Use the partition tab to expand the first container into the free space. Here are the instructions for partitioning a disk. See the last section on Enlarging a partition.
Partition a physical disk in Disk Utility on Mac - Apple Support
Hi Barney,
It won't let me do that, I had to go into the terminal to delete the partition. Disk Utility App had the minus greyed out. Im assuming due to this
"Enlarge a partition on a storage device
If
you have multiple partitions on a device and one of them is running out
of space, you may be able to enlarge it without losing any of the files
on it.
To enlarge a volume, you must delete the volume that comes
after it on the device, then move the end point of the volume you want
to enlarge into the freed space. You can’t enlarge the last volume on a
device."
So now that I managed to delete it manualy via terminal, there is the matter of combining all containers again, which disk utility won't let me do. I also tried in Recovery Mode.
I think it will need to be done via terminal, but I don't know what to type in for commands.
Here is some pictures to show what I am seeing in the disk utility app.
Maybe I can use the disk util commands in terminal to combine space. I mean I was already able to delete the partition or container using terminal commands, when guides said it wasn’t possible, or that option was greyed out in the app.
as you can see I was close, but couldn’t get the commands correct for entering what the size should be.
i have it filled with 1.6 TB so don’t want to erase and re fill it causing wear and tear on this expensive ssd!
None of your screenshots are useful. The partition tab would be the only one of any use. If the 250GB partition is the first, then you can’t combine them. You would have to erase the entire drive.
Select the little pie of 250GB and it should show the little white handle dot on the left edge of the pie. Drag that around from the left, clockwise to the top.
Does that not work?
There is only one piece in the pie, the different colour shading is what is remaining free.
there is only one container and partition anyways.
cheers
Do it however you like.
How to resize this container to use full capacatiy of volume?
