I want to delete the Recovery Partition
Before macOS El Capitan you could Delete the Recovery Partition by removing all partitions
and haven't used this but you can also enable debug mode in disk utility to see the recovery partitions seems like
so how do I delete the recovery partition above Yosemite? (prefer an answer that works above High sierra) I don't prefer to use diskutil I prefer a GUI
Best Answer
All macOS installations stored in an APFS container share the same volume for the recovery software. As you will see, you are not trying to delete a partition or volume, but rather you are trying to delete a folder. Below is the output from
diskutil apfs list
for a 2018 mac Mini with High Sierra and Catalina installed.Here
disk1s3
is the recovery volume. Next, I will enter the following commands to mount and view the contents of the root folder.The output is shown below.
Each folder contains the recovery files for a installation of macOS. Note, the folder name is also the UUID assigned to the volume where the macOS operating system is stored. So, say you wanted to remove the recovery files for Catalina sorted in the volume labeled
Snapper
, then you would want to delete the folder namedBD93DE8A-F1DF-43A1-BAB6-84EDC57F9177
. The GUI way of doing this would be to use the Finder application. However, the/Volumes
folder is hidden so you will need to press the key combination ⌘+shift+. to reveal this folder in the Finder application.I would not recommend removing the folder holding the recovery files for Catalina, unless you were going to remove the other folders and volumes created where Catalina was installed.