How to use free space to create new drive partition?

[Oneechan69]

I have \~90GB of space left on macOS and want to create a new exfat partition but disk utility only lets me create one up to 10GB big. How can I make it larger?

diskutil list
    /dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
       #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
       0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.3 GB   disk0
       1:             Apple_APFS_ISC Container disk1         524.3 MB   disk0s1
       2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk4         451.3 GB   disk0s2
       3:                 Apple_APFS Container disk2         2.5 GB     disk0s3
       4:                        EFI EFI - FEDOR             524.3 MB   disk0s4
       5:           Linux Filesystem                         1.1 GB     disk0s5
       6:           Linux Filesystem                         39.0 GB    disk0s6
       7:        Apple_APFS_Recovery Container disk3         5.4 GB     disk0s7
   
    /dev/disk2 (synthesized):
       #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
       0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +2.5 GB     disk2
                                     Physical Store disk0s3
       1:                APFS Volume Fedora Linux with GN... 1.9 MB     disk2s1
       2:                APFS Volume Fedora Linux with GNOME 1.1 MB     disk2s2
       3:                APFS Volume Preboot                 197.1 MB   disk2s3
       4:                APFS Volume Recovery                809.2 MB   disk2s4
   
    /dev/disk4 (synthesized):
       #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
       0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +451.3 GB   disk4
                                     Physical Store disk0s2
       1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            11.2 GB    disk4s1
       2:              APFS Snapshot com.apple.os.update-... 11.2 GB    disk4s1s1
       3:                APFS Volume Preboot                 6.9 GB     disk4s2
       4:                APFS Volume Recovery                1.0 GB     disk4s3
       5:                APFS Volume Data                    392.4 GB   disk4s5
       6:                APFS Volume VM                      1.1 GB     disk4s6

 

[chabig]

The free space you see is inside a fixed size APFS container and cannot be allocated to a new partition. To create a partition, you need free space on the device that isn't already committed to another partition or container. I think you would have to shrink disk4 to make space for another partition on the drive. But the setup you've got is complicated and I am not an expert. It looks like you're doing something involving linux VMs. Maybe those would best be set up on external drives.

 

[chown33]

Maybe an ExFAT disk-image would suit your purpose.