Mid2015 MBP with Sierra - I partitioned my SSD via command line to dualboot an unsupported OS. It didn't work out, so I am falling back to using Boot Camp with Win8.
I originally formatted and partitioned the drive as a GUID partition table. I did this in Sierra, and later upgraded to High Sierra without realizing it would convert the drive to APFS.
Now OSX is installed under a "Container" object within the main drive volume. The view from Disk Utility looks something like this:
APPLE SSD (512GB, GUID Partition Map)
|_Container disk 1 (APFS Container)
|__OSX (128GB, APFS Volume) <-- Where OSX appears to be installed
I can't seem to re-extend the OSX volume into the remaining ~300GB of unused space, even though Disk Utility sees it. Can anyone help me understand what I've done? Do I need to reformat the entire drive in recovery mode, is there a way to convert that parent GUID volume to APFS and reabsorb the OSX volume to access the full drive capacity?
Many thanks for any help.
I originally formatted and partitioned the drive as a GUID partition table. I did this in Sierra, and later upgraded to High Sierra without realizing it would convert the drive to APFS.
Now OSX is installed under a "Container" object within the main drive volume. The view from Disk Utility looks something like this:
APPLE SSD (512GB, GUID Partition Map)
|_Container disk 1 (APFS Container)
|__OSX (128GB, APFS Volume) <-- Where OSX appears to be installed
I can't seem to re-extend the OSX volume into the remaining ~300GB of unused space, even though Disk Utility sees it. Can anyone help me understand what I've done? Do I need to reformat the entire drive in recovery mode, is there a way to convert that parent GUID volume to APFS and reabsorb the OSX volume to access the full drive capacity?
Many thanks for any help.
