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I have removed a Container I used to have after bootcamp partition, so now I have 246.1 GB free space as can be seen in the diskutil list below:

MacBook-Pro ~ % diskutil list                          
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     314.6 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         625.3 GB   disk0s2
   3:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                128.8 GB   disk0s4
                    (free space)                         246.1 GB   -

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +625.3 GB   disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            11.7 GB    disk1s1
   2:              APFS Snapshot com.apple.os.update-... 11.7 GB    disk1s1s1
   3:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD - Data     248.3 GB   disk1s2
   4:                APFS Volume Preboot                 3.7 GB     disk1s3
   5:                APFS Volume Recovery                1.1 GB     disk1s4
   6:                APFS Volume VM                      20.5 KB    disk1s5

I have tried using diskutil apfs resizecontainer disk0s2 0, to add it to my Macintosh HD, but I have got the following, and of course I assume is because of Bootcamp partition.

diskutil apfs resizecontainer disk0s2 0
Started APFS operation
Error: -69519: The target disk is too small for this operation, or a gap is required in your partition map which is missing or too small, which is often caused by an attempt to grow a partition beyond the beginning of another partition or beyond the end of partition map usable space

The thing is, I do not want to remove my bootcamp as I have multiple configurations there.

Is there a way to add that free space to my Macintosh disk0s2?

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This question has be asked before. For example, see Missing around 20 GB of Space on MacBook.

Another similar question would be How to add to macOS (free space) from diskutil list?. Here the basic difference is you do not have a partition named OSXRESERVED. You just need to move the partition named BOOTCAMP to the end of the drive.

Included with these questions are explanations of how the free software GParted or MiniTool Partition Wizard can be used to move Windows partitions on Intel Macs.

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  • Yes, Thank you for the link, I missed that article, I finally achieved using mini partition tool.
    – Cors
    Jan 29 at 13:58
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You can't directly expand a volume or partition with another in the way, as you surmised. You need to move the other partition up to the end of the drive first.

This might be possible from the command line, but it's not something I have any experience with.
If you want to be able to do this from a GUI interface, the only app I know that can move & resize partitions, including Boot Camp, is Paragon Hard Disk Manager.

This is not something I'd attempt without a known-good backup.

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  • I noticed Paragon Hard Disk Manager support for Monterey is beta and Ventura support is not shown. Another possible "for pay" software, which runs from macOS, would be Winclone.
    – David Anderson
    Jan 29 at 12:56
  • They've always been a bit slow to fully support each OS. I haven't had cause to use it on Monterey & I don't see me adopting Ventura in the building any time soon. My upgrade policy with Apple has gone from 'first-day adventurer' 20 years ago to 'always stay one entire OS behind, let others do the beta testing.'
    – Tetsujin
    Jan 29 at 12:59

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