Resolved Cannot remove free space partition

[Yakibomb]

Hi Guys, hopefully you can help me out here

SO I cleaning up files on my mac when I realized about 20 GBs of space was missing. After searching for a while I found a blank partition in Disk Utility that accounts for the missing space.

The partition is currently formatted as "free space" but I cannot reformat it or do anything else with it. I've tried verifying and repairing it in Disk Utility in the Recovery Partition but it says "This volume appears to be OK".

Here's a pic showing what I see in Disk Utility:


Hopefully you guys can help me out

 

[maflynn]

Its not a partition, but just unused space, you cannot delete it because its not there (as a partition)

Try to grow your Macintosh partition and see if you can reclaim it (you might need to boot into recovery mode first).

 

[Yakibomb]

Its not a partition, but just unused space, you cannot delete it because its not there (as a partition)

Try to grow your Macintosh partition and see if you can reclaim it (you might need to boot into recovery mode first).

I cannot do anything with the space, it won't let me format it or grow the Macintosh partition over it

 

[NoBoMac]

Ssd?

Looks like it's an SSD that has an over-provisioning value of 7% set. So, ya, "locked".

http://www.edn.com/design/systems-design/4404566/Understanding-SSD-over-provisioning

 

[Yakibomb]

Okay so I managed to fix this. I disabled FileVault to get rid of the 'logical volume group' then tried formatting it through the Recovery Partition