Hello,

So I succesfully installed Catalina with @SpaceInvaderOne Macinabox docker. Everything is now working (iMessage etc..) so I'm very cautious with what I'm doing.

 

I started with a 60G vdisk and now I would like to expand the APFS partition. I managed to expand the vdisk to 120G but I coudl not expand the APFS Volume.

 

sudo diskutil apfs resizeContainer disk3 0

Error: -69519: The target disk is too small for this operation, or a gap is required in your partition map which is missing or too small, which is often caused by an attempt to grow a partition beyond the beginning of another partition or beyond the end of partition map usable space

I searched for an answer and the best I could get is that the free space I'm trying to add is not adjacent to the volume...  The solution I found are creating a new vdisk and cloning (wich is basicaly starting over) or rearanging the partitions. But I'm not confortable with that. Could someone please provide some help ?

 

Here is my disk layout :

 

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *2.1 GB     disk0
   1:                  Apple_HFS macOS Base System       2.0 GB     disk0s1

/dev/disk1 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *268.4 MB   disk1
   1:                        EFI EFI                     101.4 MB   disk1s1
   2:           Linux Filesystem                         163.9 MB   disk1s2

/dev/disk2 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *128.8 GB   disk2
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk2s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk3         64.2 GB    disk2s2

/dev/disk3 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +64.2 GB    disk3
                                 Physical Store disk2s2
   1:                APFS Volume nV500 - Data            41.8 GB    disk3s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 81.4 MB    disk3s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                526.6 MB   disk3s3
   4:                APFS Volume VM                      1.1 MB     disk3s4
   5:                APFS Volume nV500                   10.8 GB    disk3s5

EDIT : I'm sorry I posted in the wrong section...

Edited March 23, 20206 yr by bjornatic

I went thru this a while ago and just went with cloning to the new vdisk using CCC..carbon copy cloner. No amount of command line stuff would work for me. The command line stuff may work in recovery but i wasnt even gonna try that, just went with carbon copy cloner.

I find it hard to believe that there is no (command line) solution... The partition setup is the default setup from a "Macinabox" install. Is there something wrong to begin with ?

 

If there is no other solution I will have to try CCC but what if I want to expand the drive again in the next years ? :-/

Well, I'm resigned to try CCC, but could someone help me with the procedure... ? From where do I work ? From inside the VM ? I do not believe that you can clone (virtual) drives working on the vdisks ?