I'm looking to erase and remove/merge the space used by the windows partition back to the OSX portion. Below is the screenshot that shows the different disks.
I looked at the bootcamp assistant and the option to remove an existing windows partition was greyed out. Can anyone tell me how to get rid of the windows portion? (About 350g worth in that partition)
MacBook Pro with Retina display, macOS High Sierra (10.13.1)
Run
diskutil eraseVolume jhfs+ BC1 disk0s3
diskutil eraseVolume jhfs+ BC2 disk0s4
diskutil eraseVolume jhfs+ BC3 disk0s5
diskutil mergePartitions jhfs+ BCMP disk0s3 disk0s5
diskutil list
If you see only disk0s3, then
diskutil eraseVolume fat32 BOOTCAMP disk0s3
Now run BC Assistant and click on Remove/Restore.
Post back if you see any error messages.
Ok so I followed those steps, I went and ran the BC assistant to merge them together, but it seems like the space didn't get merged back? See below what shows now.
gpt show: unable to open device '/dev/disk0': Operation not permitted
Turns out all I needed to do was go to the disk utility and delete the 'free space' portion that got created after following your instructions. Thank you for all of your help!
Excellent. Please remember to backup macOS.
Post the output of
sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0
Erasing and merging a partition back
