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Unable to delate container disk1

I want to delate container disk1 (contenitore disk1, 60.8GB) and merge this space in Macintosh HD allocated in container disk2 (contenitore disk2).

Does someone know a proper code to be digited in terminal?

MacBook Pro with Retina display, macOS High Sierra (10.13.6), null

Posted on Aug 22, 2018 12:13 PM

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Aug 22, 2018 4:29 PM in response to federico162

Please post a text version of the output of

diskutil apfs list

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Aug 23, 2018 2:59 AM in response to federico162

I assume you can give up the OSXRESERVED partition.

What I did was, in disk utility, click OSXRESERVED partition>click partition or erase(couldn't remember which exactly, but whichever gives you the pie chart, that's it)>click the minus button below pie (Now you should only have two partitions left on the pie)>repeat last step to merge the disk0s4 back to Macintosh.

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Aug 23, 2018 5:50 AM in response to federico162

Run

diskutil eraseVolume jhfs+ BC1 disk0s3

diskutil eraseVolume jhfs+ BC2 disk0s4

diskutil mergePartitions jhfs+ BCMP disk0s3 disk0s4

diskutil list

If you only see disk0s3, then

diskutil eraseVolume fat32 BOOTCAMP disk0s3

and now run BC Assistant and try to Remove/Restore.

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Aug 23, 2018 5:23 AM in response to federico162

In Terminal run

diskutil apfs deleteContainer 542F15C7-E74D-440D-AEDE-DFAF7FE54ABD

and post the output of

diskutil list

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Aug 23, 2018 12:34 AM in response to Loner T

I'm trying to copy and paste it here but I've a warming "The message contains invalid characters."

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Aug 23, 2018 1:22 AM in response to Loner T

To solve the problem "Invalid characters" I paste the output at this link diskutil apfs list - Pastebin.com

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Aug 23, 2018 5:51 AM in response to Loner T

Thank you soooooo much!!!!!

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Aug 23, 2018 6:03 AM in response to federico162

Excellent. Please post back if you run into any further issues.

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Aug 23, 2018 5:31 AM in response to Loner T

I've run "diskutil apfs deleteContainer 542F15C7-E74D-440D-AEDE-DFAF7FE54ABD" and it's the output of diskutil list after your instruction.

MacBook-Pro-di-MacBook:~ fede$ diskutil list

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *251.0 GB disk0

1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1

2: Apple_APFS Container disk2 182.0 GB disk0s2

3: Microsoft Basic Data OSXRESERVED 8.0 GB disk0s3

4: Apple_HFS Untitled 60.7 GB disk0s4

/dev/disk2 (synthesized):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: APFS Container Scheme - +182.0 GB disk2

Physical Store disk0s2

1: APFS Volume Macintosh HD 89.0 GB disk2s1

2: APFS Volume Preboot 21.1 MB disk2s2

3: APFS Volume Recovery 519.0 MB disk2s3

4: APFS Volume VM 2.1 GB disk2s4

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