Questions tagged [partition]
Creating a new disk formatting scheme or altering an existing scheme
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On Intel era iMac can an Apple update to Mac OS break Boot Camp partiton?
Our scenario is we have Intel iMacs that were all configured to have Boot Camp/Windows partition.
Those that have basically never booted into Boot Camp are fully updated to latest Apple security and ...
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Using utilities how can I format a GPT disk without an EFI
I have 8 disks in a RAID. They are 4TB each so can not be formatted with MBR or APM. The EFI takes up 200MB on each of the 8 disks so 1600 MB for no purpose is wasted.
I have tried using diskutil ...
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Resize first partition on MacBook Pro M2, having two partitions with each MacOSX installed
I'm having a MacBook Pro with M2 chip from the company I work for. It is allowed to use the device with a separate OS installed on it. That's why I currently have two partitions, each with another ...
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Cloning a Windows 11 MacBook Pro Boot Camp partition
I recently got a new Lenovo dedicated gaming laptop and am wondering how to go about cloning, if possible, a Boot Camp Windows 11 partition. I have many files and games from my childhood I cannot find ...
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Recover files from mac in recovery mode - apfs missing
I'm trying to recover files from my mom's mac that is not working. It's a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015).
Trying to boot it up results in the folder with a question mark. Trying to boot ...
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How to recover "free space" on a Late 2013 iMac Fusion Drive after failed Boot Camp Windows installation? [duplicate]
In my fleet of older Macs, I have a Late 2013 27" iMac fitted with a 3 TB Fusion Drive running macOS 10.15.7 Catalina. I was using Boot Camp to install Windows 10 Pro, when the Windows installer ...
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Merging free space back with main partition [duplicate]
I created a partition for Linux that I do not need anymore. I deleted that partition and now am left with this free space. Am I able to merge this back into my main storage?
diskutil list disk0
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USB Flash drive not mounting (shows up in diskutil)
My 16 GB USB flash drive works perfectly on Windows and Ubuntu OS. On plugging into my Macbook Pro, I don't see it fully mounted.
On running
$ diskutil list
I see the following output
/dev/disk5 (...
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System Crashes, SSD Boot Partition Not Found after Power Surge
Hi all—I've read this community for a long time, and am now hoping you can help me more directly.
I was using my 2012 MacBook Pro last night when the power in my home went out and came back. The ...
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Repartitioned 1TB APFS SSD to MSDOS 120GB for Linux. Linux installer sees wrong slice names, though cfdisk reports correctly
model: macbook pro (2016) 3.5G Intel
1TB SSD
Ventura 13.5
Attempt 1) Resized a 120GB partition for Ubuntu. Big mistake, lost all data.
Attempt 2) Reinstalled Ventura 13.5, partitioned 120GB for EXT4 ...
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When I try 'sudo gpt -r show disk0' I get: 'gpt show: unable to open device 'disk0': Operation not permitted'. How could be this overcome?
Trying to replicate the gpt option on this post How to examine disks and their partitions via terminal?
I do:
sudo gpt -r show disk0
what I get is:
gpt show: unable to open device 'disk0': Operation ...
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How can I do a GPT (Guid Partition Table) sector raw backup with `dd` like in a UNIX/Linux-MBR fashion?
I want to "raw copy" with dd the critical GPT (~ Guid Partition Scheme) bytes of my computer's main hard drive, to an arbitrary file.
I tried to do the equivalent MBR/Unix/Linux in my Mac (...
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Trouble Deleting Partition from disk utility after uninstalling Asahi Linux in Macbook
I am using a Macbook M1 2020.
I followed the steps given in the following video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMnWTq2H-N0&t=146s
At time stamp 2:05, Mr. Macintosh gives the command given below.
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External drive with Time Machine not visible
mac os monterey 12.5.1
My external drive 2to is split into two partition of 1to
One called backup001: it is formated mac os, and it uses for timemachine for a long time. it works ok.
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Accidentally Disassemble AppleRAID RAID0
I accidentally disassembled a RAID1 via Disk Utility. The two disks were originally formatted to APFS. The Apple official website claimed the data recorded on the disks is not deleted. However, after ...
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How to recover an erased external drive partition?
I have a 2009 iMac running Ventura 13.4.
I was messing with a USB key and accidentally erased my 3TB external media drive using Disk Utility. I originally used Disk Utility to create a single large ...
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Determine if Macbook Pro hard drive is damaged or repairable
I have a 2019 16" MacBook Pro with 512GB drive which I would like to reformat and dual boot with Ubuntu. (I'm ok with a stable MacOS or Ubuntu single-boot too). There is no data on it that needs ...
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I have lost the Logical Volume name on a disk partition and am trying to recover/rebuild it
I have a 2009 MacBook Pro that has 2 internal fusion drives and an external LaCie USB drive and can (normally) boot into 4 iterations of Mac OS: Snow Leopard, Mavericks, El Capitan, and Catalina. This ...
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This volume has 75.8 MB used space. You can’t remove this volume, because the preceding volume cannot be resized. This volume can’t be resized
I want to make a replacement parition for bootcamp purposes, any way to help?
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New Macbook Pro is case-insensitive but Time Machine backup is case-sensitive
There are related questions here, but many are dated and none seems to quite cover my situation.
I have an early 2015 MacBook Pro that has been kept as up to date as possible, currently running 12.6.7....
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"Not Enough Space" when trying to use bootcamp assistant - BUT I DO HAVE ENOUGH SPACE [duplicate]
I'm trying to partition my hard drive using boot camp assistant. I'm using a 32gb flashdrive, and I have a bit more than 180gb free on mac hard drive. I'm using Sierra 10.12.6.
I'm not very computer ...
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MacBook Pro Recovery Mode Broken [duplicate]
A few weeks ago I installed Linux Fedora on my MacBook Pro (Late 2011) and wanted to switch back to macOS now, but I have experienced a lot of problems.
Latest Internet Recovery: For some reason, I ...
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Interrupted a `diskutil resizeContainer diskX 0` attempt to recover unpartitioned space - ended up with a startup snapshot and a Data volume
After I got done test driving Asahi Linux on my M1 Max, I decided to remove it and recover the allocated space, 500 GB (out of a total 2TB).
I uninstalled Asahi Linux from my Mac using the commands ...
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Cannot erase, partition or reinstall - exit code 0 / exit code8
After erasing the main volume to prep my MBP i7 for a transfer of ownership I started reinstalling macOS from recovery mode, but the wifi went down during download and I had to restart my mac as the ...
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Fusion Drive is split and not available for repartitioning
I'm using an iMac 5k Retina 2014 (old, I know) with OSX Yosemite installed. For some reason Bootcamp has never worked with my USB drives, so I tried manually installing Windows 10.
I partitioned the ...
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gpt operation not permitted in Ventura
Trying to run the gpt command with anything other than show returns an 'operation not permitted' error, regardless of using sudo, running in a root shell, making sure disk is unmounted, and even ...
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How do I partition an external drive on macOS 13.2.1? [duplicate]
I have an external drive and I am running macOS 13.2.1. I'd like to partition the external drive into two partitions and use one of those for a Time Machine backup. In Disk Utility, it has the +|- ...
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I tried to uninstall Asahi Linux by removing the partition but now it just says (free space)
I had tried to install Asahi Linux but I got into an endless boot loop. To fix it I tried removing the partition which the script had created. I tried to refer to a few blogs but for some reason ...
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How to completely remove unwanted Ubuntu dual boot partition?
I previously had a dual boot (Linux and macOS) setup. I added UBUNTU and SWAP partitions to the existing macOS partition.
I no longer need Linux so I deleted the UBUNTU partition but I still see the ...
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How to reclaim disk space of merged HFS+ partition?
On an external USB disk formatted with HFS+, I had merged a 800GB partition with a 2TB one. Now, although disk utility shows the merged partition as 2.8TB, the Finder only reports 2TB of space:
The ...
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External APFS SSD partition stops mounting after a while mount even after erasing/reformatting
I have been trying to use an APFS partitioned Samsung T7 shield 2 TB for a couple of weeks now but keep running into the same issue. After a few days of use, one of my partitions will no longer mount.
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Installing Windows 7 through Bootcamp for Mid-2011 iMac - How to Delete Hidden Partitions
So I was hoping to install Windows 7 onto my computer. It's an old Mid-2011 iMac that I wanted to use for gaming and other programs. The problem however was that after deleting a second partition, it ...
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Is it okay to just throw away the disk image in the trash instead of using Disk Utility to remove it?
I'm having trouble removing disk images. For reference, my Mac is an Apple Silicon.
I made a disk image using Disk Utility to create a secure folder, but I want to completely erase the image so that ...
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Can I delete macOS Partition from Boot Camp and then load a new macOS?
On my Mac, I can only access Boot Camp and not macOS. It keeps on restarting, when I’m trying to access macOS.
I can’t also load Recovery, Internet Recovery and it fails to boot from from USB. It ...
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diskutil list does not show (free space)
I had an issue with a partition that refused to be deleted.
The drive is a 500 GB Samsung SSD with (previously) 2 partitions:
Macintosh HD (apfs volume with macOS Catalina) -- 250 GB (disk0s1)
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Time Machine backups of Multiple Macs to external drive with APFS: Should I use separate containers, or one container with different volumes?
On an external drive, I have 3 APFS containers each with 1 volume in them respectively. The 3 containers and their respective volumes are used for Time Machine backups from 3 different Macs. The APFS ...
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Can APFS containers be resized while retaining their contents? (Case-sensitive, encrypted)
Can APFS (Case-sensitive, encrypted) containers be resized while retaining their contents (e.g. not having to reformat them) in MacOS?
I have an external hard drive with 3 different Time Machine ...
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How can i give the "free space" on my internal ssd to the APFS container, where macos is installed? [duplicate]
I had Ubuntu installed in dual boot on my macbook pro 2018 with macOS Ventura 13.2.1 . Now I deleted the partition on which Linux was located and saw in Disk Utility that I don't have all of my SSD ...
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External SSD partition map damaged, can't format (69773/found zeroed-out block/69623)
So my external SSD (1TB Samsung 970 evo plus in an Orico TB3 housing) died. I unmounted it but probably didn't wait long enough and unplugged the drive before completing the unmounting procedure. So ...
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How to enlarge a APFS container with free space before it? [duplicate]
/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk2
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Can I recover data from a Macbook drive which I overwrote with Windows?
Last night, I decided to try creating a Windows 10 recovery disk and boot from it on my Mac. While I was successful in formatting an SD card with the Windows recovery disk and booting to it, I made an ...
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Time Machine Back Up of external hard drive
I have two partitions on my hard drive. One of them is used for the time machine back up. On the other one I've got files that I would like to back up with Time Machine too.
Unfortunately I can't ...
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Get purgeable space with diskutil CLI
With something like diskutil info /dev/disk1s1 among other things I can get my free space as follows:
Container Free Space: 28.3 GB (28347076608 Bytes) (exactly 55365384 512-Byte-Units)
The ...
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Unable to reclaim free space after bootcamp uninstall [duplicate]
I'm unable to reclaim free space after uninstalling Boot Camp (done through the Boot Camp Assistant).
Here are some screenshots from Disk Utility and results from diskutil:
$ diskutil list
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Install macOS Sierra on "Macintosh HD" or on "Update"
First time I see these two options - which should I use?
This is a 2017 MacbookPro 13" with Intel i5, model A1708, right after I erased "Macintosh HD" using Disk Utility and reset its ...
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I was trying to delete Ubuntu from my MacBook Air and now I can't access macOS
I had installed Ubuntu on my MacBook, but I don't need it anymore so I was trying to delete the parts of Ubuntu.
When I entered Disk Utility the minus button was greyed out, so I checked some videos ...
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Cannot recover freed disk space after Bootcamp disk recovery
My MacBookPro16,1 was running Windows 10Pro via Bootcamp and after an update I could no longer boot into Windows. So I spent 2 days backing up my data and trying to run Windows recovery tools to no ...
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A partition shows no files in finder, why does it take up space?
I created a partition on my Macbook Air (13-in. 2017) a year or two back with the intention of installing another operating system. I never got around to it so the partition has just sat there. I want ...
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installing Debian on mac a different mac partition
I disabled the SIP (system integrity protection)
I installed refind-bin-0.13.3.1
I erased the USB into FAT
I booted the Debian on the USB using DD
diskutil list
sudo diskutil unmountDisk /dev/...
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Can not claim free space after bootcamp partition, I do not want to remove my bootcamp [duplicate]
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
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