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Topic: Can GParted live media resize my Mac's Boot Camp setup?

I have two partititions that updated macOS Mojave v10.14.6's Boot Camp with updated 64-bit W10 Pro. I want to resize their partitions (macOS is encrypted with its FileVault). macOS' Disk Utility and GParted (gparted-live-1.5.0-6-amd64.iso) wouldn't let me resize. https://i.imgur.com/EYC0EFu.jpg for a screen shot/capture from GParted from a 2012 13" MacBook Pro with a Micron 500 GB SSD. I hope I don't have to redo my Boot Camp!

Thank you for reading and hopefully answering soon. smile

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Re: Can GParted live media resize my Mac's Boot Camp setup?

As listed on the Features page, GParted can not resize apfs (Apple File System).

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Re: Can GParted live media resize my Mac's Boot Camp setup?

mfleetwo wrote:

As listed on the Features page, GParted can not resize apfs (Apple File System).

Darn and thanks. That is what I thought. Are there any plans to support it in the future? Are there any other free programs that can?

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Re: Can GParted live media resize my Mac's Boot Camp setup?

GParted doesn't know the internals of any file system it resizes..  It uses the available open source file system software tools running on Linux for each file system type in order to resize it.  As far as I know there are no such tools for apfs.

From a Google search it appears as MacOS itself comes with a command line tool to resize apfs.  Search for diskutil apfs resizeContainer.