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I created a partition on my SSD that is in my late 2017 MacBook Pro. I then deleted it and now there is a “empty space” partition. I followed the steps on https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253238513?login=true
this and got to running diskutil lost internal, but the diskN number N doesn’t appear and when I run diskutil unmountDisk diskN, the operation fails. Thoughts on how to continue?
Thanks for any recommendations,
C00lT00l
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 13.5
C00lT00l Said:
"Empty Space on SSD partition: [...]this and got to running diskutil lost internal, but the diskN number N doesn’t appear and when I run diskutil unmountDisk diskN, the operation fails. Thoughts on how to continue? Thanks for any recommendations,[...]"
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Report back if this does the trick. I am eager to know...
Format in Recovery Mode:
Backup your Mac so that you can have something to restore your Mac from, should anything go wrong with this.. Then, boot into Recovery Mode (Intel or Silicon), and perform the formatting with Disk Utility.
C00lT00l Said:
"Empty Space on SSD partition: [...]this and got to running diskutil lost internal, but the diskN number N doesn’t appear and when I run diskutil unmountDisk diskN, the operation fails. Thoughts on how to continue? Thanks for any recommendations,[...]"
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Report back if this does the trick. I am eager to know...
Format in Recovery Mode:
Backup your Mac so that you can have something to restore your Mac from, should anything go wrong with this.. Then, boot into Recovery Mode (Intel or Silicon), and perform the formatting with Disk Utility.
This seems to have done the trick! I tried doing this outside of recovery mode before and it wasn’t working. One I was in recovery mode I just ran first aid and removed the empty space from the partition menu. Thanks so much TheLittles!
C00lT00l Said:
"Empty Space on SSD partition: This seems to have done the trick! I tried doing this outside of recovery mode before and it wasn’t working. One I was in recovery mode I just ran first aid and removed the empty space from the partition menu. Thanks so much TheLittles!”
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You are welcome.
Excellent job troubleshooting!
Empty Space on SSD partition
