APFS containers will be composed of 1 or two partitions. These partition should be specified when the container is created and cannot be modified afterwards. You’ll be able to change the dimensions of the partitions (and thus the container) after the container has been created. Enlarging a partition is topic to the quantity of free house accessible instantly after the partition.
The Linux idea of “including two bodily volumes to at least one quantity group” doesn’t exist in macOS. A minimum of not with out destroying the contents.
I’ve a 2018 Intel Mac mini with a non-removable 256 GB inside SSD. After utilizing the Boot Camp Assistant to put in Home windows on the interior drive, it turned obvious 256 GB of storage was not going to sufficient. In 2019, a 500 GB Thunderbolt 3 Samsung X5 exterior SSD was bought. After taking a look at specs, it was decided this drive would function at barely decrease speeds over the interior SSD. The choice was made to go away macOS Mojave put in on the sooner inside SSD and transfer customers dwelling listing (folder) to the brand new sightly slower exterior SSD. Under are just a few feedback about making the transfer.
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The Disk Utility utility was used to erase the brand new SSD. I used the format APFS and named the brand new APFS quantity Puffer.
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Should you transfer all customers dwelling directories to the exterior drive and for no matter purpose the exterior drive is unavailable, then you will see it tough to login. To forestall this from taking place, I created a brand new administrator account identify Administrator whose dwelling listing will stay on the interior drive. As soon as logged into this Administrator account with all different customers logged out, all different customers dwelling listing can then modified to the brand new exterior drive. For instance, the picture under reveals my dwelling listing after altering it to be on the exterior SSD APFS quantity named Puffer. (This picture is from macOS Mojave.)
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You’ll be able to copy your recordsdata from the outdated dwelling listing to the brand new dwelling listing, then take away these recordsdata from the outdated dwelling listing. Or you possibly can select to maintain recordsdata in each dwelling directories. You’ll be able to log in to the Administrator account and alter the default dwelling listing to be on both the interior or exterior drive.
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The Samsung SSD was plugged straight right into a USB-C port on the Mac. A USB hub was additionally plugged into the Mac utilizing a unique port. Any flash drives or SD card had been hooked up utilizing this hub. This helped stop by accident unplugging the Samsung SSD whereas booted to macOS. Nonetheless, often the Samsung drive did get unplugged whereas boot to macOS. I can report unplugging didn’t lead to information corruption. In different phrases, the Mac was restarted and
diskutilwas used to confirm the APFS container on the exterior drive was OK.
