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kinkazma@MacBook-Pro-3 ~ % tmutil listlocalsnapshots /
Snapshots for disk /:
kinkazma@MacBook-Pro-3 ~ % tmutil listbackups
No machine directory found for host.
kinkazma@MacBook-Pro-3 ~ % curl https://alx.sh | sh
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 1808 100 1808 0 0 15326 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 15452
Bootstrapping installer:
Checking version...
Version: v0.7.1
Downloading...
Extracting...
Initializing...
The installer needs to run as root.
Please enter your sudo password if prompted.
Password:
Welcome to the Asahi Linux installer!
This installer will guide you through the process of setting up
Asahi Linux on your Mac.
Please make sure you are familiar with our documentation at:
https://alx.sh/w
Press enter to continue.
Collecting system information...
Product name: MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2021)
SoC: Apple M1 Max
Device class: j316cap
Product type: MacBookPro18,2
Board ID: 0xa
Chip ID: 0x6001
System firmware: iBoot-10151.81.1
Boot UUID: 7B8FB65E-180E-45B7-A7B0-4466C46D35E9
Boot VGID: 7B8FB65E-180E-45B7-A7B0-4466C46D35E9
Default boot VGID: 7B8FB65E-180E-45B7-A7B0-4466C46D35E9
Boot mode: macOS
OS version: 14.3.1 (23D60)
OS restore version: 23.4.60.0.0,0
Main firmware version: 14.3.1 (23D60)
No Fallback System Firmware / rOS
SFR version: 23.4.60.0.0,0
SystemRecovery version: 22.7.74.0.0,0 (13.5 22G74)
Login user: kinkazma
Collecting partition information...
System disk: disk0
Collecting OS information...
Partitions in system disk (disk0):
1: APFS [Macintosh HD] (4.00 TB, 6 volumes)
OS: [B*] [Macintosh HD] macOS v14.3.1 [disk3s1s1, 7B8FB65E-180E-45B7-A7B0-4466C46D35E9]
2: APFS (System Recovery) (5.37 GB, 2 volumes)
OS: [ ] recoveryOS v14.3.1 [Primary recoveryOS]
[B ] = Booted OS, [R ] = Booted recovery, [? ] = Unknown
[ *] = Default boot volume
Using OS 'Macintosh HD' (disk3s1s1) for machine authentication.
Choose what to do:
r: Resize an existing partition to make space for a new OS
q: Quit without doing anything
Ā» Action (r): r
We're going to resize this partition:
APFS [Macintosh HD] (4.00 TB, 6 volumes)
Total size: 4.00 TB
Free space: 262.72 GB
Available space: 1.95 GB
Overhead: 222.77 GB
Minimum new size: 3.99 TB (99.95%)
Warning: The selected partition has a large amount of overhead space.
This prevents you from resizing the partition to a smaller size, even
though macOS reports that space as free.
This is usually caused by APFS snapshots used by Time Machine, which
use up free disk space and block resizing the partition to a smaller
size. It can also be caused by having a pending macOS upgrade.
If you want to resize your partition to a smaller size, please complete
any pending macOS upgrades and visit this link to learn how to manually
delete Time Machine snapshots:
https://alx.sh/tmcleanup
Ā» Continue anyway? (y/N):
What do I have to do? What am I risking by doing āyā under these conditions? I just want to install Asahi Linux, but with 4 TB itās hard to have a complete backup. Pleeeaaase
Hello @kinkazma ,
Welcome to !
I am not familiar with Asahi so will defer to others who will likely chime in soon ā¦ please be patient as the people supporting others here are volunteers and will likely be in all different time zones. Also, if you donāt mind deleting your duplicate topic about this, just to avoid confusion for others who may be facing similar issue(s).
@kinkazma you should not continue, thereās no way you can install a functional Asahi Linux in less than 1.95 GB (for me, the boot partition alone is 1 GB). You also risk ending up with so little free space on the macOS partition that macOS wonāt work properly.
TBH Iām surprised it even works with 1.95 GB of free space. The Asahi FAQ recommends leaving at least 40 GB free on the macOS partition (after the resize) for updates, but itās very likely that having 50 GB or more of free space will also make macOS and your Mac apps perform better.
But if you do know whatās using most of your disk space, and itās stuff thatās important to you, then the only way to install Asahi is to buy an external HDD and move some of that stuff to the external disk (which also makes it easier to access from both macOS and Asahi).
@denulu Iāve got over 250GB of free space.
Itās displayed in my Finder and Iāve already deleted the Time Machine snapshots as well as the disks where backups were made on an old Mac (mine being 4TB, itās difficult to back it up).
My computer runs fine, but I donāt understand the discrepancy between free space and available space.
The first and second lines of my post prove it.
@kinkazma Iām not very familiar with APFS so I donāt know exactly what that overhead means, or why āAvailable spaceā is so much smaller than āFree spaceā - āOverheadā.
What I am sure about is that the installer canāt free even 2GB and that thereās little point in trying to install Asahi on a partition with less than 50 GB, unless all youāre not planning to actually use it.
Itās very likely that itās possible to reduce the overhead using diskutil, but since you started with āI donāt know anything about computersā, I wouldnāt recommend that. I would recommend instead that you move stuff to an external HDD until you have at least 15% free space, so you can give the Asahi partition 5% (200 GB) and also leave 10% of the macOS partition free.
I would also recommend that you keep at least two copies of the stuff that you really care about, regardless of whether you install Asahi or not.
I have already used the command you mention as suggested in the installation guide. Iāll have a look.
I do have a few basics (Ti Basic Ti-Nspire CX CAS)
And Iāve already tinkered with Apple script and done python 3 with GPT. But I donāt understand exactly. Letās just say that the terminal or the code donāt scare me.
Warning: The selected partition has a large amount of overhead space.
This prevents you from resizing the partition to a smaller size, even
though macOS reports that space as free.
This is usually caused by APFS snapshots used by Time Machine, which
use up free disk space and block resizing the partition to a smaller
size. It can also be caused by having a pending macOS upgrade.
If you want to resize your partition to a smaller size, please complete
any pending macOS upgrades and visit this link to learn how to manually
delete Time Machine snapshots:
In the end I didnāt find it, I made room. Can you or someone else tell me what I do from here. This message keeps popping up and I donāt want to do anything stupid. I now have 117GB available for Asahi (400GB free). I have no update, or time machine snapshots.
I succeeded. I couldnāt disable TimeMachine on Sonoma. I had to disable snapshots via terminal, but in the end I had to make space. I even saturated my disaue with 400GB of data, I learned that 2GB is enough for my mac, but once freed the strange space was still there. I backed up 4TB with TimeMachine and was able to install Linux. It was difficult for me, but I managed.
However, I didnāt manage to install Sherloq, which I really wanted to have, it was kind of my last chanceā¦ Well, at least I learned something. Thanks a lot!
!
