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I installed Ubuntu on my Macbook but it didn't really work for me so I deleted it. I used Disk Utility to delete the Ubuntu partition, but when I want to delete a Linux-swap partition I made while installing Ubuntu nothing happens. I press the minus button and it will delete it. But after deleting it just stays there, and I can't change the partition in any way. How can I delete the partition?
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
The Linux installer corrupted the partition table, as usual. Boot from another drive and re-partition with the default options.
What worked for me was to first go to the partition on the left menu and erase it while the "format" was selected as MS-DOS. Then I was able to use the minus sign in the partition menu of the main drive to remove the linux partition.
I looked online for hours, so hopefully this will spread the word of how to find the linux partitions that won't be deleted!!!
This worked for me!!!
Simply click the + to create another partition, then Command+click both the new partition you just made, (called something like macintosh 2) and the linux partition, and click the - button. They will both be deleted and your mac will then be able to be resized to gain back it's full, single partition! 😀
Format the 'Linux Swap' partition to 'Mac OS Extended (journaled)' or 'MS-DOS (FAT32)' in Disk Utility. Select disk and remove the new formatted volume with ➖ button.
Dave
I tried installing Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS on my MacBook Air 2013. It eventually failed to install due to GRUB not installing. I rebooted to the OS X partition and could't delete the Swap partition. I used the method Dave mentioned above and it worked perfectly. Thank you. 🙂 Saved me having to boot from a Ubuntu Live DVD to fix it.
Disk utility won't delete partition.
