Hi tim, Can I just point out that apple don't or haven't for quite a number of years used 250 gig drives.
250 gig drives were used back in like 2008 mac book pro and mac book devices they were the HDD spindal drives. Ssds are 256 gig from apple now. I think if we get the serial number from wolfs machine and check it in the likes of mac tracker it would give us the correct information. The drive to me says it's a 128gig drive, Not a 250 like he believes. -----Original Message----- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Tim Kilburn Sent: Sunday, 14 January 2018 5:38 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: mac partition questiohn 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. >> >> 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 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. >>>> >>>> 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 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? >>>>>> >>>>>> 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 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. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> 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 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. . . >>>>>>>>>> "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 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 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >> > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. 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