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Lost space after removing Bootcamp

Hello! I was trying to install windows through bootcamp on my computer but it got stuck on partitioning disk for a few hours. When i googled what to do I saw someone say that I should close the program, restart the computer and delete the partition through disk utility by clicking the "-" in partition mode. However when I did this I never recovered the space I allotted for windows! Later on I saw someone say that the right way is to delete it through bootcamp assistant..OOF!


So now I'm looking for a way to undo my mistake. I saw some answers to people with the same problem but their drives were a little different from mine and now I'm too scared to just input random commands into terminal since I don't want to damage my computer anymore. I do have a time machine back up but I want to find a way to fix this without restarting my computer and deleting all my files. So, any help is appreciated!


P.S.

I have a Mac Mini (Late 2014) and macOS Mojave 10.14.6


This is what I get when i type the command diskutil list:

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):

  #:            TYPE NAME          SIZE    IDENTIFIER

  0:   GUID_partition_scheme            *1.0 TB   disk0

  1:            EFI EFI           209.7 MB  disk0s1

  2:         Apple_APFS Container disk1     839.0 GB  disk0s2


/dev/disk1 (synthesized):

  #:            TYPE NAME          SIZE    IDENTIFIER

  0:   APFS Container Scheme -           +839.0 GB  disk1

                 Physical Store disk0s2

  1:        APFS Volume Macintosh HD      233.9 GB  disk1s1

  2:        APFS Volume Preboot         44.5 MB  disk1s2

  3:        APFS Volume Recovery        510.3 MB  disk1s3

  4:        APFS Volume VM           4.3 GB   disk1s4



Posted on Oct 11, 2020 6:04 AM

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Oct 11, 2020 6:27 AM in response to Loner T

Thank you so much for replying so quickly!!! I think the drive is fixed now I have the full 1TB space again! I hope it's safe to try installing windows again. Here is the output:


Started APFS operation

Aligning grow delta to 160,995,131,392 bytes and targeting a new physical store size of 999,995,129,856 bytes

Determined the maximum size for the targeted physical store of this APFS Container to be 999,994,101,760 bytes

Resizing APFS Container designated by APFS Container Reference disk1

The specific APFS Physical Store being resized is disk0s2

Verifying storage system

Using live mode

Performing fsck_apfs -n -x -l -S /dev/disk0s2

Checking the container superblock

Checking the EFI jumpstart record

Checking the space manager

Checking the space manager free queue trees

Checking the object map

Checking volume

Checking the APFS volume superblock

The volume Macintosh HD was formatted by hfs_convert (945.230.6) and last modified by apfs_kext (945.275.8)

Checking the object map

Checking the snapshot metadata tree

Checking the snapshot metadata

Checking the extent ref tree

Checking the fsroot tree

Checking volume

Checking the APFS volume superblock

The volume Preboot was formatted by hfs_convert (945.230.6) and last modified by apfs_kext (945.275.8)

Checking the object map

Checking the snapshot metadata tree

Checking the snapshot metadata

Checking the extent ref tree

Checking the fsroot tree

Checking volume

Checking the APFS volume superblock

The volume Recovery was formatted by diskmanagementd (945.230.6) and last modified by apfs_kext (945.275.8)

Checking the object map

Checking the snapshot metadata tree

Checking the snapshot metadata

Checking the extent ref tree

Checking the fsroot tree

Checking volume

Checking the APFS volume superblock

The volume VM was formatted by apfs.util (945.230.6) and last modified by apfs_kext (945.275.8)

Checking the object map

Checking the snapshot metadata tree

Checking the snapshot metadata

Checking the extent ref tree

Checking the fsroot tree

Verifying allocated space

warning: Overallocation Detected on Main device: (878023+57) bitmap address (7c8d)

warning: Overallocation Detected on Main device: (878080+64) bitmap address (7c8d)

warning: Overallocation Detected on Main device: (878144+64) bitmap address (7c8d)

warning: Overallocation Detected on Main device: (878208+21) bitmap address (7c8d)

warning: Overallocation Detected on Main device: (878255+17) bitmap address (7c8d)

warning: Overallocation Detected on Main device: (878272+64) bitmap address (7c8d)

warning: Overallocation Detected on Main device: (878336+7) bitmap address (7c8d)

warning: Overallocation Detected on Main device: (878431+33) bitmap address (7c8d)

warning: Overallocation Detected on Main device: (878464+64) bitmap address (7c8d)

warning: Overallocation Detected on Main device: (878528+22) bitmap address (7c8d)

warning: Overallocation Detected on Main device: (883407+33) bitmap address (7c8d)

warning: Overallocation Detected on Main device: (887919+17) bitmap address (7c8e)

warning: Overallocation Detected on Main device: (887936+64) bitmap address (7c8e)

too many warnings generated; suppressing subsequent ones

The volume /dev/disk0s2 appears to be OK

Storage system check exit code is 0

Growing APFS Physical Store disk0s2 from 838,999,998,464 to 999,995,129,856 bytes

Modifying partition map

Growing APFS data structures

Finished APFS operation

Oct 11, 2020 6:38 AM in response to gabie0568

gabie0568 wrote:

I think the drive is fixed now I have the full 1TB space again! I hope it's safe to try installing windows again.

Excellent! Yes, you can try to install Windows.

Here is the output:

Growing APFS Physical Store disk0s2 from 838,999,998,464 to 999,995,129,856 bytes
Modifying partition map
Growing APFS data structures
Finished APFS operation

Looks good.

Lost space after removing Bootcamp

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