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Unable to add more volume to startup disk

Hi, I want to add more storage to startup disk. This was my diskutil list before:

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *121.3 GB
disk0

1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB
disk0s1

2: Apple_APFS Container disk3 40.6 GB disk0s2

3: Apple_APFS Container disk2 39.5 GB disk0s5


/dev/disk2 (synthesized):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: APFS Container Scheme - +39.5 GB disk2

Physical Store disk0s5

1: APFS Volume Study 29.7 GB disk2s1

2: APFS Volume Preboot 20.6 MB disk2s2

3: APFS Volume Recovery 520.8 MB
disk2s3

4: APFS Volume VM 3.2 GB disk2s4


/dev/disk3 (synthesized):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: APFS Container Scheme - +40.6 GB disk3

Physical Store disk0s2


Then I ran this command

diskutil apfs deleteContainer disk0s2


After that container disk3 got deleted

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *121.3 GB
disk0

1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB
disk0s1

2: Apple_HFS Untitled 81.5 GB disk0s2

3: Apple_APFS Container disk2 39.5 GB disk0s5


/dev/disk2 (synthesized):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: APFS Container Scheme - +39.5 GB disk2

Physical Store disk0s5

1: APFS Volume Study 29.7 GB disk2s1

2: APFS Volume Preboot 20.6 MB disk2s2

3: APFS Volume Recovery 520.8 MB
disk2s3

4: APFS Volume VM 3.2 GB disk2s4


Then I ran this command

sudo diskutil eraseVolume "Free Space" %noformat% /dev/disk0s2

After that disk0s2 got deleted. Now I'm not able to find the free space, which I want to add into disk2 which is my startup disk.

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *121.3 GB
disk0

1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB
disk0s1

2: Apple_APFS Container disk2 39.5 GB disk0s5


/dev/disk2 (synthesized):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: APFS Container Scheme - +39.5 GB disk2

Physical Store disk0s5

1: APFS Volume Study 29.7 GB disk2s1

2: APFS Volume Preboot 20.6 MB disk2s2

3: APFS Volume Recovery 520.8 MB
disk2s3

4: APFS Volume VM 3.2 GB disk2s4

Can anyone suggest me how to increase the size of disk2 which is my startup disk.

MacBook Air, macOS High Sierra (10.13.1)

Posted on Feb 21, 2018 1:42 PM

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Feb 22, 2018 4:49 AM in response to SantyKanty

After reboot and re installing the os, this is how it looks:

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I can't figure out what happened to other 80 gb which is missing now.

diskutil list command output:

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *121.3 GB disk0

1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1

2: Apple_APFS Container disk1 39.5 GB disk0s2


/dev/disk1 (synthesized):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: APFS Container Scheme - +39.5 GB disk1

Physical Store disk0s2

1: APFS Volume Study 11.3 GB disk1s1

2: APFS Volume Preboot 40.9 MB disk1s2

3: APFS Volume Recovery 1.0 GB disk1s3

4: APFS Volume VM 1.1 GB disk1s4

Unable to add more volume to startup disk

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