macos 10.14 can't create larger partition even though I have enough space

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Hi everyone,

I tried creating a bootcamp partition of about 120gb. Disk utility didn't want to go past 87gb, although I have 300gb free. Anyway, I created the 87gb partition, installed windows, and got back to mac to resize the mac drive, but I get this message in disk utlities:
This container has 199,57 GB used space.
Its minimum size is 391,48 GB.
Anyone has any idea why is that the minimum size?
I ran disk utility in recovery mode and the disk is alright.
I'm on 10.14.6, filevault enabled, macbook pro 15' 2014

Thanks

 

[dsemf]

Hi everyone,

I tried creating a bootcamp partition of about 120gb. Disk utility didn't want to go past 87gb, although I have 300gb free. Anyway, I created the 87gb partition, installed windows, and got back to mac to resize the mac drive, but I get this message in disk utlities:
This container has 199,57 GB used space.
Its minimum size is 391,48 GB.
Anyone has any idea why is that the minimum size?
I ran disk utility in recovery mode and the disk is alright.
I'm on 10.14.6, filevault enabled, macbook pro 15' 2014

Thanks

Start with diskutil list and diskutil apfs list in terminal. Copy the resulting output in the terminal window and paste into a reply using the Insert Code option (... on the menu bar, select </> Code).

DS

 

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Here it is:

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         413.0 GB   disk0s2
   3:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                87.1 GB    disk0s3

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +413.0 GB   disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            197.8 GB   disk1s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 45.0 MB    disk1s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                510.4 MB   disk1s3
   4:                APFS Volume VM                      1.1 GB     disk1s4
  
  
  
  
  
   APFS Container (1 found)
|
+-- Container disk1 FA90206F-78D8-4E4E-981C-DCD0D2DF47DD
    ====================================================
    APFS Container Reference:     disk1
    Size (Capacity Ceiling):      413000007680 B (413.0 GB)
    Capacity In Use By Volumes:   199580360704 B (199.6 GB) (48.3% used)
    Capacity Not Allocated:       213419646976 B (213.4 GB) (51.7% free)
    |
    +-< Physical Store disk0s2 C5904A24-5004-4DD5-9F64-8AB57877A4F5
    |   -----------------------------------------------------------
    |   APFS Physical Store Disk:   disk0s2
    |   Size:                       413000007680 B (413.0 GB)
    |
    +-> Volume disk1s1 DB6212CD-9969-3F5D-AC76-652C50102BC8
    |   ---------------------------------------------------
    |   APFS Volume Disk (Role):   disk1s1 (No specific role)
    |   Name:                      Macintosh HD (Case-insensitive)
    |   Mount Point:               /
    |   Capacity Consumed:         197797699584 B (197.8 GB)
    |   FileVault:                 Yes (Unlocked)
    |
    +-> Volume disk1s2 C72D4B3C-4450-4457-8DB3-AC44AC78B096
    |   ---------------------------------------------------
    |   APFS Volume Disk (Role):   disk1s2 (Preboot)
    |   Name:                      Preboot (Case-insensitive)
    |   Mount Point:               Not Mounted
    |   Capacity Consumed:         45047808 B (45.0 MB)
    |   FileVault:                 No
    |
    +-> Volume disk1s3 1B9F283E-139A-4A55-BE48-B3CE738476D9
    |   ---------------------------------------------------
    |   APFS Volume Disk (Role):   disk1s3 (Recovery)
    |   Name:                      Recovery (Case-insensitive)
    |   Mount Point:               Not Mounted
    |   Capacity Consumed:         510414848 B (510.4 MB)
    |   FileVault:                 No
    |
    +-> Volume disk1s4 45A80015-6B6A-4692-85B1-12DE4D758826
        ---------------------------------------------------
        APFS Volume Disk (Role):   disk1s4 (VM)
        Name:                      VM (Case-insensitive)
        Mount Point:               /private/var/vm
        Capacity Consumed:         1073762304 B (1.1 GB)
        FileVault:                 No

 

[dsemf]

I don't see any obvious issues.

You might try the following command and see if the minimum value is smaller that 413GB.

sudo diskutil apfs resizeContainer disk0s2 limits

DS