Loss of hard drive space when Bootcamp Partition was removed

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Loss of hard drive space when Bootcamp Partition was removed

When I removed the Bootcamp (windows) partition from my Macbook Air I lost the storage associated with the partition. When I look at Disk Utility it now shows the below.

However I still do not see any listing of this Free Space when I enter the below commands. These were taken this morning after allowing my computer to go through the "revert" process all night. I still register a logical drive.

MacBook Air (13-inch, Early 2014), OS X Yosemite (10.10.5)

Posted on Oct 24, 2015 1:10 AM

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Oct 24, 2015 1:23 AM in response to us1985mc

Thanks Loner

I actually got fixed it in the end, wiped the logical family and volume to leave the raw drives and wrote new core storage and volumes, back to normal now with my missing 300GB back in.

Thanks for your input

Chris

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Loner T

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Oct 24, 2015 6:56 AM in response to us1985mc

Notice the Free Space after GPT3 in the GPT command output. The safest and easiest method is to backup OS X using Time Machine, erase your internal whole disk by booting into Internet Recovery and restoring from the TM backup. There more labor intensive ways which may take less time, but require Terminal commands.

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