![]() I couldn’t for the life of me free the purgeable space and was stuck at around 6GB free on a 1TB partition. I was a little scared of filling the disk so I used the count parameter to free a fixed number of 512 byte segments.ĭd if=/dev/zero of=./lete count=500000000ĥ00,000,000 is 0.5GB x 512 bytes per segment = 256GB (you can adjust count to meet your needs or to test a smaller amount).Ģ56GB was all I needed for the head-room I needed to keep working in my oversized Virtual Machine which was choking (VMWare). cd /Volumes/MyPartition01)ĭo an ‘ls’ (LS LiSt) to see what directories are there and change into one (e.g. To run the command on each partition, go to the /Volumes directory to see the partitions (e.g. I have a 2 TB SSD in 2 partitions of 1 TB Each. This is an answer I’ve been looking for for years – THANK-YOU (MacOS High Sierra) So enter the following into the Terminal window: dd if=/dev/zero of=~/stupidfile.crap What we need to do is to start making a file that will grow until the disk is full. Open the Terminal application in Applications/Utilities. Let’s Fill Up The Disk To The Brim To Remove Purgeable So here’s how to do it in MacOS High Sierra. That’s because APFS is smart enough to recognize that it’s the same file, so it makes pointers to the original data, so it doesn’t take up extra space. APFS – How a Smart File System Can Make Some Things Difficultīecause Apple has changed to a much smarter file system, my old method of creating a file and then duplicate that file until the disk was full, thus forcing MacOS to start to remove the Purgeable portion of the drive doesn’t work anymore. That is all handled by the operating system. If you don’t understand the above, don’t do it! The method is not a way of getting more space. Usually for installing Bootcamp or having multiple partitions on a drive. Read this before continuing: Only use this for making more room if you need to change the partition size of your disk. ![]() ![]() So here is how to remove the Purgeable part of the disk in MacOS High Sierra. Because of that, my old guide doesn’t work. I’ve written an article on how to remove the purgeable portion on a hard disk on MacOS, but in High Sierra, Apple has changed the file system from HFS+ to APFS. ![]()
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