jasstock.blogg.se - Preparing to partition disk mac

Still in Disk Utility, select the Container and add extra volumes as required.

You should then have one partition of 500GB with a Container which has 2 obvious volumes - under Big Sur or Catalina they will be Macintosh HD and Macintosh HD - Data.

That will allow the main partition to grow to fill the disk.

In Disk Utility remove the Projects and Untitled partitions.

Copy the content of Projects and Untitled to another disk.

I apologise for lack of screenshots, but I don't have a free disk or two required to replicate your setup.

You need a backup of Projects and Untitled because you will be deleting them.

The backup of Macintosh HD is in case of mistakes/disasters. The volumes will all share the 500GB disk, but will not be restricted to particular sizes like your 350GB, 75GB and 75GB.īefore you do anything with your disk structure make sure you have a good backup of everything you need to keep. The container can then have multiple volumes - in your case: Macintosh HD and Projects. I recommend having one partition which is formatted as an APFS container.

In what follows I assume you want all the files in all three existing partitions. Firstly, you don't need to have separate partitions.