If in fact the drive in the old 2009 Mac is an SSD. If spinning, its
macOS Extended.
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On 1/13/2018 8:37 AM, Tim Kilburn wrote:
Hi,
To clarify. What's likely happened here is that when you attempted to create the
BootCamp partition, something went wrong. Obvious, I know, but it needs to be said
first. So, you now have the Macintosh HD partition using up half the space of the
250 GB drive and the rest is unallocated space. As Janina mentioned, distil in
Terminal is your best option. Since you have a MacBook and you're running High
Sierra, the drive will be formatted as APFS which makes the distil command set
slightly different than if it was a spinner drive. "What you'll want to do is
first determine a few facts about the drive and it's allocations, then you should be
able to expand the Macintosh HD to use up the remaining free space and, thus, regain
all the space that the 250 GB drive has to offer.
Actually, the first thing to do is to make sure that you have a backup of your
data incase of problems. There's not likely to be any, but as soon as I say
that, there probably will be. The commands that you need to consider are:
• distil list (this will list all the volumes on your drive and outline their
format/size etc)
• distil apfs (this will list the available commands under the apfs volume set)
• distil apfs resizeVolume (is likely the command you'll need to regain the
free space)
Note, arguments like resizeVolume are case sensitive. Also, be sure to do the
backup first as you don't want to lose you stuff. Usually, the system won't
let you destroy things without either warning you or just not allowing you to
perform the action, but you never know. You also may need to perform some of
these actions from the Recovery Partition, but, I believe that you really
should be able to non-destructively resize the Macintosh HD volume without too
much headache from within Terminal.
Later...
Tim Kilburn
Fort McMurray, AB Canada
On Jan 13, 2018, at 09:06, 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries
<macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote:
The wolf writes:
Hello yes I am using High Sierra
Which means that you're using apfs, which is a whole new ball of wax.
It's not even that clearly explained anywhere that I've found between
it's concepts of drives, volumes, partitions, and containers.
diskutil is the best tool, promise.
On 1/12/2018 10:01 PM, E.T. wrote:
You are running High Sierra? If the drive is not an SSD then you are
probably using macOS extended. Mine is formatted to APFS so the
partition tab is different. So I am not sure what you should look for.
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On 1/12/2018 7:07 PM, The wolf wrote:
will give that a shot
is there anything that I should be looking out for?
On 1/12/2018 8:01 PM, E.T. wrote:
Off list. Since I have not had this problem, perchance you
can go into the partition tab and see if you can address this
there. Just a guess that you somehow "lost" 125gigs in there.
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and say God did it." --Carl Sagan (1934-1996), Contact
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On 1/12/2018 5:07 PM, The wolf wrote:
disk aid was one of the verry first things that I tried running
On 1/12/2018 6:03 PM, E.T. wrote:
Too many things going on over here. So you are
missing 125g. Have you run First Aid?
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On 1/12/2018 4:56 PM, The wolf wrote:
250 gb capasity
minus 125 gigs for the intire mac partition=
125 gigs
there is still
125 gigs that should be free
is thismaking any sense?
On 1/12/2018 5:46 PM, E.T. wrote:
Hank,
Go to Finder, do a command shift c to bring
up the drives, do a command i on the drive and
tell me what the 3 numbers are. Capacity,
available and used.
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mysteries of the world,
all the challenges to our intelligence. You
simply turn your mind off
and say God did it." --Carl Sagan (1934-1996), Contact
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On 1/12/2018 4:40 PM, The wolf wrote:
the mac book should show a capasity
of 250 gigs
not
124.92 gigs
there is still something not right with this
On 1/12/2018 5:33 PM, E.T. wrote:
If he partition is 125g, 25 used and
100g available then that adds up up
250g. Am I missing something?
From E.T.'s Keyboard. . .
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the mysteries of the world,
all the challenges to our intelligence.
You simply turn your mind off
and say God did it." --Carl Sagan (1934-1996), Contact
E-mail: ancient.ali...@icloud.com
On 1/12/2018 3:23 PM, The wolf wrote:
capassity
124.92 gigs
98.6 gigs
available
124 megabites
purgeable
26 gigs
used
I am still missing 100 gigs some where on this drive
my drive on the mac is a 250 gig drives
Hank
On 1/12/2018 4:11 PM, E.T. wrote:
Dump the trash and check again.
From E.T.'s Keyboard. . .
"God for you is where you sweep
away all the mysteries of the
world,
all the challenges to our
intelligence. You simply turn
your mind off
and say God did it." --Carl Sagan (1934-1996), Contact
E-mail: ancient.ali...@icloud.com
On 1/12/2018 2:56 PM, The wolf wrote:
Hello total drive it is saying that it is 124 gig capassity
it is using 82 gig but the
drive is a 250 gb so
something is taking over 100
gigs
On 1/12/2018 3:21 PM, E.T. wrote:
How do you know what
you are missing? You did
not say how much space
is used. Do a Get Info
on the drive.
From E.T.'s Keyboard. . .
"God for you is where
you sweep away all the
mysteries of the world,
all the challenges to
our intelligence. You
simply turn your mind
off
and say God did it." --Carl Sagan (1934-1996), Contact
E-mail: ancient.ali...@icloud.com
On 1/12/2018 2:05 PM, The wolf wrote:
Hello I was doing
some looking around
and my mac hd is 250
gigs
it says that 128 gigs is available
I think my partition
got messed up some
how wich would
explain why I have
been havinb boot
camp issues
how ever I don't see
any way to find
where the extra
partition is that is
taking up the rest
of the space?
the only other thing I see is the recovery disk.
surely that isn't what is taking up the rest of the space?
not sure if any of thi sis making sense
thanks for any help that you guys can give
Hank
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