I have an encrypted APFS container with several volumes. The container lives on a physical partition (disk0s1), which is followed by more partitions (disk0s2, …) with no free space in between. I need to expand one of the volumes on the container without having to move the other physical partitions in order to expand disk0s1. I know with LVM you can expand the container (physical volume) with other partitions which don't need to be adjacent, or even on the same hard drive. Is that possible with an APFS container?
APFS container over multiple physical disks
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Best Answer
There is no official documented way to add another physical storage to an existing APFS container.
I tried several possibly "undocumented" apfsVerbs like addPhysical, addPhysicalStorage or addStorage without success.
The feature may still be implemented later, since creating APFS FusionLCs is possible already:
Example: