I know this seems like an beginner / dumb question, since an obvious answer would be:
- Open Disk Utility
- Remove Linux partition
However it seems that it might not be that easy, and that following those steps could actually lead to pretty messed up partition schemes:
- Remove Linux partition on Mac. CoreStorage problems
- OS volume shows as type 'FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF'
- Hardrive will not mount after deleting Linux partition. Can’t boot into Mac OS X
- Remove Ubuntu and grow Mac partition
I am therefore asking this question in hope for a proper, safe way to remove a Linux partition after a dual boot Mac / Linux, without having to fear going to an hex editor to repair your drive or to use the internet recovery and losing all your data.
I'm running High Sierra 10.13.6 and Ubuntu 18.04, without REFind and no swap partition.
$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *251.0 GB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_APFS Container disk1 180.8 GB disk0s2
3: Microsoft Basic Data 69.8 GB disk0s3
/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: APFS Container Scheme - +180.8 GB disk1
Physical Store disk0s2
1: APFS Volume macOS 69.9 GB disk1s1
2: APFS Volume Preboot 23.2 MB disk1s2
3: APFS Volume Recovery 515.0 MB disk1s3
4: APFS Volume VM 1.1 GB disk1s4
Best Answer
I assume you have Linux installed in the
Microsoft Basic Data
partition. Although with Ubuntu 18, I would expect aLinux Filesystem
partition type.The command given below will remove the
Microsoft Basic Data
partition. The created free space will not appear indiskutil list
.The command given below will add the free space to the APFS container partition. This added space will be available to macOS.
I suppose there will still be some Linux code in the hidden EFI partition. The commands below will remove any Linux code that would cause an icon to appear in the Startup Manager.