hardi001 wrote:
Hello, Everyone!
I recently visited Apple Genius Bar for a complicated drive partitions problem. At present, I still find a challenge with all my laptops with different partitions sizes. Does anyone have a solution for these two tiny partitions? These partitions are locked. However, I reached out to Apple Genius Bar, but they have not yet to find answers. Even I tried to wipe the device using an external device but could not resolve the problem. Does anyone have a solution for partition problems? Or anyone have any software solutions?
https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/58bbbc3f-4a1c-45eb-953b-6c5e66952ada
https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/a1f05d7a-dcd5-460f-98b1-458cc409c32a
In the GUID / APFS
Containers have replaced Partitions . You can however add or remove Volumes In a shared Container without penalty.
Unless you have some compelling reason to do otherwise
Add, delete, or erase APFS volumes in Disk Utility on Mac
DiskUtility is lagging behind to satisfactorily manipulating Containers.
You can from Internet Recovery, use Disk Utility to erase/reformat/initialize the drive as new to reclaim all the space if that is your question...
DiskUtility>View>Show All Devices
for comparison only as seen from the terminal.app
MacBook-Pro % diskutil list internal
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk0
1: EFI EFI 314.6 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_APFS Container disk1 1.0 TB disk0s2
/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: APFS Container Scheme - +1.0 TB disk1
Physical Store disk0s2
1: APFS Volume Macintosh HD 9.1 GB disk1s1
2: APFS Snapshot com.apple.os.update-... 9.1 GB disk1s1s1
3: APFS Volume Macintosh HD - Data 372.6 GB disk1s2
4: APFS Volume Preboot 2.0 GB disk1s3
5: APFS Volume Recovery 1.1 GB disk1s4
6: APFS Volume VM 2.1 GB disk1s5
