Cannot partition w/ Boot Camp Assistant on macOS Mojave

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Late 2016 Macbook Pro running Mojave 10.14.3, APFS-formatted (ugh).

I have run Disk Utility to verify my disk, and I've run fsck -fy from single-user mode several times. Both of these have reported absolutely no errors.

And yet, whenever I try to run Boot Camp Assistant to dual-boot with Windows 10, I get an error that says: "An error occurred while partitioning the disk."

Thinking I'd be clever, I also tried to create a partition manually through Disk Utility, but that didn't work either. I also reinstalled macOS in Recovery Mode.

I am starting to suspect that this is a problem with APFS. What other commands could I run to receive more information as to why Boot Camp Assistant won't let me create a partition to run Windows? Thanks in advance.

Best Answer

The problem is called overallocation. The following helped me to fix it on Mojave APFS:

Please note, there is a lot of posts out there telling you to do fsck. If you are on APFS you need to do fsck_apfs instead. This is what made the difference for me.

  1. Shut down your Mac.
  2. Start and hold Cmd-S to boot into single user mode.
  3. Run fsck_apfs -o
  4. It will ask you to confirm, type in y and press Enter.
  5. When finished (up to 3 minutes) type reboot and press Enter.

After trying everything I could find, this finally worked.

I also ran fsck_apfs -n -l before I ran fsck_apfs -o but I don't think that made any difference.

As I watched the results it produced this line: Overallocation detected on Main device And then it did: Fix overallocation

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