Hard drive troubles after instal of Monterey

[Bazzman666]

Hello Peoples 😀

 

I'm after some advice or help to try gain back some of my hard drive space that seems to have disappeared after installing Monterey  . I have a 250 SD drive that runs my OS but for some reason it has split into 2 halves, 1 half i cannot mount or even resize------ see below

 

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):

   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *250.1 GB   disk0

   1:                        EFI ⁨EFI⁩                     209.7 MB   disk0s1

                    (free space)                         124.9 GB   -

   2:                 Apple_APFS ⁨Container disk3⁩         124.6 GB   disk0s2

   3:       Microsoft Basic Data ⁨EFI⁩                     321.9 MB   disk0s3

 

Is there anyway to possibly do this through terminal ?

 

Regards

 

Barry

[Slice]

Type

diskutil

and see the list of available options.

I don't know them because for my mind system Disk Utility much better. 

 

[Bazzman666]

10 hours ago, Slice said:

Type

diskutil

and see the list of available options.

I don't know them because for my mind system Disk Utility much better. 

 

 

Hi Slice

 

Ive tried disk utility but cant merge or resize as it does have a ID, it jumps from  EFI ⁨EFI⁩ 209.7 MB   disk0s1 - Apple_APFS ⁨Container disk3⁩   124.6 GB   disk0s2. The free space seems to between that , which is why i thought using the command line .

 

diskutil ------- below

 

 

barrynelson@iMac-Pro ~ % diskutil

Disk Utility Tool

Utility to manage local disks and volumes

Most commands require an administrator or root user

 

WARNING: Most destructive operations are not prompted

 

Usage:  diskutil [quiet] <verb> <options>, where <verb> is as follows:

 

     list                 (List the partitions of a disk)

     info[rmation]        (Get information on a specific disk or partition)

     listFilesystems      (List file systems available for formatting)

     listClients          (List all current disk management clients)

     activity             (Continuous log of system-wide disk arbitration)

 

     u[n]mount            (Unmount a single volume)

     unmountDisk          (Unmount an entire disk (all volumes))

     eject                (Eject a disk)

     mount                (Mount a single volume)

     mountDisk            (Mount an entire disk (all mountable volumes))

 

     enableJournal        (Enable HFS+ journaling on a mounted HFS+ volume)

     disableJournal       (Disable HFS+ journaling on a mounted HFS+ volume)

     moveJournal          (Move the HFS+ journal onto another volume)

     enableOwnership      (Exact on-disk User/Group IDs on a mounted volume)

     disableOwnership     (Ignore on-disk User/Group IDs on a mounted volume)

 

     rename[Volume]       (Rename a volume)

 

     verifyVolume         (Verify the file system data structures of a volume)

     repairVolume         (Repair the file system data structures of a volume)

     verifyDisk           (Verify the components of a partition map of a disk)

     repairDisk           (Repair the components of a partition map of a disk)

     resetFusion          (Reset the components of a machine's Fusion Drive)

 

     eraseDisk            (Erase an existing disk, removing all volumes)

     eraseVolume          (Erase an existing volume)

     reformat             (Erase an existing volume with same name and type)

     eraseOptical         (Erase optical media (CD/RW, DVD/RW, etc.))

     zeroDisk             (Erase a disk, writing zeros to the media)

     randomDisk           (Erase a disk, writing random data to the media)

     secureErase          (Securely erase a disk or freespace on a volume)

 

     partitionDisk        ((re)Partition a disk, removing all volumes)

     addPartition         (Create a new partition to occupy free space)

     splitPartition       (Split an existing partition into two or more)

     mergePartitions      (Combine two or more existing partitions into one)

     resizeVolume         (Resize a volume, increasing or decreasing its size)

 

     appleRAID <verb>     (Perform additional verbs related to AppleRAID)

     coreStorage <verb>   (Perform additional verbs related to CoreStorage)

     apfs <verb>          (Perform additional verbs related to APFS)

 

diskutil <verb> with no options will provide help on that verb

 

barrynelson@iMac-Pro ~ %

 

might need to add a container to disk disk0

 

 

[Slice]

I encountered the problem that if a disk formatted into GPT by Windows 10 then I can't resize partitions.

So I have to reformat the whole disk into GPT using macOS Recovery. Then it can be resized any way I want.