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I can't delete the section Free

I tried to install Windows 7 itself, and I created a section in Disk Utility, but due to the fact that I could not deal with Bootcamp, I decided to delete this section. However, the section is not removed. And it has changed its name and its type to "free". This section is no way I can remove and make him anything I can not either. Even the name, simply by pressing the "Apply" button, nothing happens. Erase the entire disk, I can not, because it very useful information, and record it anywhere I can not, because I do not have devices with high memory, and slow Internet speed. What should I do? Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10.2, MacBook 13, 256GB

P.S. In my city, there is no official Apple Store

MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.2), 256GB

Posted on Mar 3, 2015 9:40 AM

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Mar 3, 2015 10:02 AM in response to EnderMan1997

Can you post the output of the following Terminal commands?


diskutil list

diskutil cs list

sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0

sudo fdisk /dev/disk0


For "sudo" commands, enter your password when prompted, and it will not be echoed back to you. "sudo' will also warn about improper use and data loss. As long as you use the commands as they are, it should not cause any problems.

Mar 3, 2015 11:30 AM in response to Loner T

diskutil list

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *251.0 GB disk0

1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1

2: Apple_CoreStorage 198.7 GB disk0s2

3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3

/dev/disk1

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD *198.3 GB disk1

Logical Volume on disk0s2

20DDAD5D-128B-4962-B483-CCB192119A33

Unencrypted


diskutil cs list

| Status: Online

| Size: 198714880000 B (198.7 GB)

|

+-> Logical Volume Family 982099AC-406E-4CC2-B3DD-219DCAD0915D

----------------------------------------------------------

Encryption Status: Unlocked

Encryption Type: None

Conversion Status: NoConversion

Conversion Direction: -none-

Has Encrypted Extents: No

Fully Secure: No

Passphrase Required: No

|

+-> Logical Volume 20DDAD5D-128B-4962-B483-CCB192119A33

---------------------------------------------------

Disk: disk1

Status: Online

Size (Total): 198343675904 B (198.3 GB)

Conversion Progress: -none-

Revertible: Yes (no decryption required)

LV Name: Macintosh HD

Volume Name: Macintosh HD

Content Hint: Apple_HFS


sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0

gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=251000193024; sectorsize=512; blocks=490234752

gpt show: /dev/disk0: PMBR at sector 0

gpt show: /dev/disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1

gpt show: /dev/disk0: Sec GPT at sector 490234751

start size index contents

0 1 PMBR

1 1 Pri GPT header

2 32 Pri GPT table

34 6

40 409600 1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B

409640 388115000 2 GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

388524640 1269536 3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

389794176 100440543

490234719 32 Sec GPT table

490234751 1 Sec GPT header


sudo fdisk /dev/disk0

Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 30515/255/63 [490234752 sectors]

Signature: 0xAA55

Starting Ending

#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [ start - size]

------------------------------------------------------------------------

1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 1 - 490234751] <Unknown ID>

2: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused

3: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused

4: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused

Mar 3, 2015 1:19 PM in response to EnderMan1997

In your diskutil list output you have disk0s3, which is the Recovery HD. If it is converted to Free Space, then you have contiguous Free Space after your CS volume.


First you should try and run BC Assistant and if you see a "Remove..." option use it. If that does not work, then diskutil commands will need to be used to reclaim the disk space.


Your diskutil cs list output is not complete. Can you post it again?


You should also back up OSX using Time Machine. You can use an external disk of about 384GB or more.

Mar 3, 2015 2:20 PM in response to Loner T

CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)

|

+-- Logical Volume Group DD6A32F8-C5F6-432B-87B1-11F0861CB9B7

=========================================================

Name: Macintosh HD

Status: Online

Size: 198714880000 B (198.7 GB)

Free Space: 18882560 B (18.9 MB)

|

+-< Physical Volume 481655C8-2202-4520-8C3F-CC3C2C44DA28

| ----------------------------------------------------

| Index: 0

| Disk: disk0s2

| Status: Online

| Size: 198714880000 B (198.7 GB)

|

+-> Logical Volume Family 982099AC-406E-4CC2-B3DD-219DCAD0915D

----------------------------------------------------------

Encryption Status: Unlocked

Encryption Type: None

Conversion Status: NoConversion

Conversion Direction: -none-

Has Encrypted Extents: No

Fully Secure: No

Passphrase Required: No

|

+-> Logical Volume 20DDAD5D-128B-4962-B483-CCB192119A33

---------------------------------------------------

Disk: disk1

Status: Online

Size (Total): 198343675904 B (198.3 GB)

Conversion Progress: -none-

Revertible: Yes (no decryption required)

LV Name: Macintosh HD

Volume Name: Macintosh HD

Content Hint: Apple_HFS

Mar 3, 2015 3:25 PM in response to EnderMan1997

The following command can merge disk partitions, but Free Space has no assigned disk0sN. The other challenge you have is that you have a CoreStorage

volume, so mergePartitions by itself does not help.

diskutil mergePartitions

Usage: diskutil mergePartitions [force] format name

DiskIdentifier|DeviceNode DiskIdentifier|DeviceNode


Merge two or more pre-existing partitions into one. The first disk parameter

is the starting partition; the second disk parameter is the ending partition;

this given range of two or more partitions will be merged into one.


All partitions in the range, except for the first one, must be unmountable.


All data on merged partitions other than the first will be lost; data on the

first partition will be lost as well if the "force" argument is given.


If "force" is not given, and the first partition has a resizable file system

(e.g. JHFS+), it will be grown in a data-preserving manner, even if a different

file system is specified (in fact, your file system and volume name parameters

are both ignored in this case). If "force" is not given, and the first

partition is not resizable, you will be prompted if you want to erase.


If "force" is given, the first partition is always formatted. You should

do this if you wish to reformat to a new file system type.


Merged partitions are required to be ordered sequentially on disk.

See diskutil list for the actual on-disk ordering; BSD slice identifiers

may in certain circumstances not always be in numerical order but the

top-to-bottom order given by diskutil list is always the on-disk order.


Ownership of the affected disk is required.


Example: diskutil mergePartitions JHFS+ NewName disk3s4 disk3s7

This example will merge all partitions *BETWEEN* disk3s4 and disk3s7,

preserving data on disk3s4 but destroying data on disk3s5, disk3s6,

disk3s7 and any invisible free space partitions between those disks;

disk3s4 will be grown to cover the full space if possible.

Mar 3, 2015 6:12 PM in response to EnderMan1997

You cannot merge Free Space into a Core Storage volume, even if you delete Recovery HD.


1. You need to delete Recovery HD using the following command. The file system should be free. This will merge disk0s3 and the following Free Space into a single Free Space.


diskutil eraseVolume

Usage: diskutil eraseVolume format name MountPoint|DiskIdentifier|DeviceNode

Completely erase a disk (partition or whole), laying down a new file system

volume. Ownership of the affected disk is required. Format is the specific

file system personality name (or alias) you want to erase it as (JHFS+, etc.).

Name is the (new) volume name (subject to file system naming restrictions), or

can be specified as %noformat% to skip initialization (to skip newfs). You

cannot erase the boot volume.

Example: diskutil eraseVolume JHFS+ UntitledHFS /Volumes/SomeDisk


diskutil listfilesystems

Formattable file systems


These file system personalities can be used for erasing and partitioning.

When specifying a personality as a parameter to a verb, case is not considered.

Certain common aliases (also case-insensitive) are listed below as well.


-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

PERSONALITY USER VISIBLE NAME

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

ExFAT ExFAT

Free Space Free Space

(or) free

MS-DOS MS-DOS (FAT)

MS-DOS FAT12 MS-DOS (FAT12)

MS-DOS FAT16 MS-DOS (FAT16)

MS-DOS FAT32 MS-DOS (FAT32)

(or) fat32

HFS+ Mac OS Extended

Case-sensitive HFS+ Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive)

(or) hfsx

Case-sensitive Journaled HFS+ Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled)

(or) jhfsx

Journaled HFS+ Mac OS Extended (Journaled)

(or) jhfs+


2. Once you have contiguous free space after the Core Storage volume (disk0s2), you will need to use the following command to extend the CS volume to the entire disk.


diskutil cs resizeStack

Usage: diskutil coreStorage resizeStack

lvUUID|MountPoint|DiskIdentifier|DeviceNode [pvUUID] size

[part1Format part1Name part1Size part2Format part2Name part2Size

part3Format part3Name part3Size ...]

Resize both a logical volume and one of its underlying physical volumes in a

single operation. A single physical volume is always chosen for the underlying

shrink or grow, even if the logical volume's logical volume group is backed by

more than one physical volume. If you do not specify a particular physical

volume, then one is chosen for you. Note that if this is a grow operation,

this verb is limited by the physical volume's partition's room to grow.

Specifying zero as the size asks for an "automatic" grow-to-fill operation.

If this is a shrink operation, you can optionally request that new partitions

be created in the newly-formed free space gap in the partition map.

Again, note that this only resizes one of the underlying physical volumes; if

you need more sophistication in managing your topology, you should use the

separate physical and logical volume resize verbs.

Example: diskutil coreStorage resizeStack

11111111-2222-3333-4444-555555555555 10g JHFS+ New 1g


The command will look like (the UUID used is Logical Volume from you diskutil cs list output).


diskutil cs resizeStack 20DDAD5D-128B-4962-B483-CCB192119A33 250g

3. You can the reinstall OS X (without modifying any of your non-OS files) and get Recovery HD back.

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