I can't delete storage "containers" from my disk

Question

I've tried as much as I can find, anything with diskutil in the terminal or in the GUI hasn't worked. Asahi doesn't show up in the GUI or in the boot options now. I want to completely erase all the data associated with Asahi and give it all back to my main "Macintosh HD" drive

(Note that my ssd is 256Gb)

Output of diskutil list

   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                         251.0 GB   disk0
   1:             Apple_APFS_ISC ⁨⁩                        524.3 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS ⁨Container disk4⁩         170.0 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_APFS ⁨Container disk1⁩         2.5 GB     disk0s3
   4:                        EFI ⁨EFI - ASAHI⁩             500.2 MB   disk0s4
                    (free space)                         72.1 GB    -
   5:        Apple_APFS_Recovery ⁨⁩                        5.4 GB     disk0s6

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +2.5 GB     disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s3

/dev/disk4 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +170.0 GB   disk4
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume ⁨Macintosh HD⁩            15.2 GB    disk4s1
   2:              APFS Snapshot ⁨com.apple.os.update-...⁩ 15.2 GB    disk4s1s1
   3:                APFS Volume ⁨Preboot⁩                 590.1 MB   disk4s2
   4:                APFS Volume ⁨Recovery⁩                798.2 MB   disk4s3
   5:                APFS Volume ⁨Data⁩                    71.5 GB    disk4s5
   6:                APFS Volume ⁨VM⁩                      1.1 GB     disk4s6

Any help would be appreciated.

Update: I've done something that made my asahi partition called (free space) in the updated diskutil list output above and it doesn't have a point on my ssd but this isn't allocated in Macintosh HD and looks weird in the GUI. It's only got 170GB when it's a 256Gb Hard drive - The pie chart doesn't count the full 256Gb, only 170GB

It seems like the partition drive only shows this container's space.

Edit: More weird stuff. It says my SSD is 251GB, which it is but the partitions added together don't count as 251GB, only 170... Even though I have "Show all devices" checked in the menu bar for disk utility

Answer 1

Update: The Asahi folks have written up a guide to cleaning up after their changes, and indicated that they will provide a built-in way to do it in the future: https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/Partitioning-cheatsheet

It explains a lot of the reasoning, and also provides a command to resize the container with diskutil as well.

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Your disk is fine, to remove Asahi linux you can use these commands. PLEASE check the disk numbers, since I've written them based on your diskutil output, but if it's changed please use the numbers it shows now, not what I've written below.

To delete a partition and replace it with free space:

diskutil eraseVolume free free /dev/disk#s# (I believe disk0s4 is what you want here, for "EFI - ASAHI⁩")

If the partition is an APFS container, use this command instead, referencing the synthesized disk number instead:

diskutil apfs deleteContainer /dev/disk# (I believe disk1 is what you want here, for the 2.5GB container not your main container)

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Once you've done this, you should just have:

/dev/disk0 (internal):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                         251.0 GB   disk0
   1:             Apple_APFS_ISC ⁨⁩                        524.3 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS ⁨Container disk3⁩         245.1 GB   disk0s2
   3:        Apple_APFS_Recovery ⁨⁩                        5.4 GB     disk0s3

(With free space likely appearing between disk0s2 and disk0s3 in this example)

To grow the container to use the free space, you can do this in Disk Utility UI. I found it was a little funky but after clicking around it eventually let me resize it.

Answer 2

Thank GOD! For me help - diskutil eraseVolume free free /dev/disk#s# then via Utility GUI merging disk to main