Shrink Mac Partition Boot Camp

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Mar 28, 2017  Stellar Partition Manager is a drive management tool that manages all Mac partitions including the BOOT Camp volume without causing data loss. If you need to erase to repartition, make a full clone, boot from macOS Recovery, and use Disk Utility in that mode to repartition, which will keep macOS Recovery intact if it’s a startup volume. Mar 02, 2017  The Apple’s Boot Camp Assistant provides you three functions to run Windows on Mac, including help you to partition your Mac hard drive into 2 partitions (the Mac hard drive must be formatted as Mac OS Extended), install Windows device drivers for Apple hardware and allow you to select which operating system to boot. Dec 10, 2019  For more information about using Windows on your Mac, open Boot Camp Assistant and click the Open Boot Camp Help button. If you're using an iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2014) or iMac (27-inch, Late 2013) or iMac (27-inch, Late 2012) with a 3TB hard drive and macOS Mojave or later, learn about an alert you might see during installation.

  1. I faintly remember that you can't as bootcamp partition is the system/boot partition for Windows and Windows disk management does not allow expanding of system/boot partition. I don't think gparted can be a solution too since it doesn't boot on mac.
  2. When enlarging a volume, the volume or partition that is directly after the target volume must be deleted to make room for the enlarged target volume.; The last volume on a drive can't be enlarged. The pie chart interface for adjusting volume size is picky. When possible, use the optional Size field to control the size of a drive segment instead of the pie chart's dividers.
  3. Jul 04, 2011  Thanks for watching! In this video, it will show you how to resize your Windows Bootcamp partition, so you can increase/decrease the size of your partition depending on your needs.
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By Mike Wuerthele
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Boot Camp will add a partition on-the-fly to your system drive, but there are some things that can stand in the way of that process. AppleInsider explains how to fix most of the issues preventing you from setting up that partition, if the assistant throws you the failure to partition error.



Pre-step. Get a backup with something other than Time Machine. For this task, we recommend Carbon Copy Cloner, SuperDuper, or ChronoSync to make a fully bootable, fully clone-able backup volume.
We've spoken about Carbon Copy Cloner and ChronoSync in the past. Before we go any further, it might be worth taking a look again.

Disable FileVault


FileVault can, in some cases interfere with the partitioning process. Why, we're not sure, but the best and least destructive, way around it is to turn off Filevault, if it is on. If it isn't, then go to the next step.
Select System Preferences, and click Security and Privacy.


Click on the Mac shrink boot camp partitionFileVault tab. Unlock the pane, validate your credentials, and click Turn Off FileVault.


This isn't an immediate process. Decryption of your drive happens when the Mac is awake and plugged in. So, either use your Mac for a few hours doing things other than making a Boot Camp partition, or tell your Mac to never sleep in the Energy Saver control panel and walk away for a while.

Turn off Time Machine, un-associate any backup drives


You've got a backup, right? Don't proceed any further unless you have a backup that doesn't depend on Time Machine.

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First, disassociate any backup drives with Time Machine. Select System Preferences, and click Time Machine.


Click Select Disk


Click on the drive being used as your Time Machine backup, and click Remove Disk. The Mac will pop up a dialog asking you to confirm that you want to do so.

Try to use Boot Camp assistant to partition the drive again. Should it still fail, you may need to remove Time Machine local snapshots as well.

Purge Time Machine local snapshots


For the tech saavy, the procedure to do this is different in High Sierra than it used to be. Apple killed a one-step, easy, Terminal process to turn off the feature, and automatically delete all local snapshots.
The procedure is still in the Terminal, though. Open the Terminal.


Enter tmutil thinlocalsnapshots / 9999999999999999
Depending on how many you have, and the speed of your drive, it may take a few moments to eradicate all the snapshots.


The above steps deal with most of the obstacles to a successful Boot Camp Assistant partitioning of your system drive. Once more, try to use Boot Camp Assistant to make the partition.
If all that still doesn't allow the partition to be created, then..

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Format your hard drive


If you've gotten this far, we're pretty confident of your ability to do this step. First, make sure you have a backup! Reformat your drive either by booting from your restore clone, or rebooting in recovery mode, and set up an APFS partition for your macOS install, and a

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macOS Extended (journaled) partition for what will become your Boot Camp partition later in the process.
Restore your backup to the APFS partition, run the Boot Camp Assistant again, and all should be well.
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