Hi all, as the title states, I was just wondering how I can I shrink my Asahi Linux partition and reallocate the new space back to macOS? I’m looking through this article (I’m pretty sure I received this link as a reply to a previous post I made), and I can’t see anything about resizing Asahi, only deleting.
Thanks!
I shrank asahi to give myself a dedicated swap partion using gparted. After you do that, I’m not sure the steps to increase MacOS; you probably can use its disk utility to resize the APFS partition.
You cannot shrink Linux and give back the space to macOS easily, because macOS is before Linux in the partition order. Shrinking Linux just leaves empty space after it, which you’d have to create a new volume in, you can’t add that space to the existing macOS volume. This is just how disk partitioning works.
To merge the empty space back to macOS you’d have to move the Linux partition forward in the disk, but that is a process that cannot be done online while Linux is booted. Perhaps you could try some macOS disk partitioning utilities?
Or just back up your data, delete Asahi, expand macOS as you see fit, and reinstall.
Sounds good, I’ll look into how macOS partitioning stuff can help, but I’m leaning towards backing up and restoring haha. If I find a way to do it in macOS I’ll update this post.
Thanks!
