I'm learning/trying
My idea is actually this: a) Create a 1 GiB container b) Add 5 volumes of 200 MiB size in the 1 GiB container I run these commands. Delete container diskutil apfs deleteContainer disk5 Container1 OK Create container diskutil apfs createContainer disk0s1 OK Now, I start to create the volumes, 200 MiB each (1 GiB can contain 5 volumes of 200 MiB) newfs_apfs -v "Volume1" -s 200M -A disk5 OK newfs_apfs -v "Volume2" -s 200M -A disk5 OK newfs_apfs -v "Volume3" -s 200M -A disk5 newfs_apfs: unable to format volume inside /dev/disk5: Result too large Why?
The command
What's wrong?
diskutil
, newfs_apfs
and other disk command on macOS.My idea is actually this: a) Create a 1 GiB container b) Add 5 volumes of 200 MiB size in the 1 GiB container I run these commands. Delete container diskutil apfs deleteContainer disk5 Container1 OK Create container diskutil apfs createContainer disk0s1 OK Now, I start to create the volumes, 200 MiB each (1 GiB can contain 5 volumes of 200 MiB) newfs_apfs -v "Volume1" -s 200M -A disk5 OK newfs_apfs -v "Volume2" -s 200M -A disk5 OK newfs_apfs -v "Volume3" -s 200M -A disk5 newfs_apfs: unable to format volume inside /dev/disk5: Result too large Why?
The command
diskutil list
reports this situation:
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.1 GB disk0
1: Apple_APFS Container disk5 1.1 GB disk0s1
/dev/disk5 (synthesized):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: APFS Container Scheme - +1.1 GB disk5
Physical Store disk0s1
1: APFS Volume Volume1 209.7 MB disk5s1
2: APFS Volume Volume2 209.7 MB disk5s2
As you can see the container's volume uses only 420 MB of space
and I have at least space for two other volumes.What's wrong?
Asked by elbarna
(117 rep)
Mar 18, 2024, 03:18 AM
Last activity: Mar 19, 2024, 09:39 PM
Last activity: Mar 19, 2024, 09:39 PM