Cannot remove a really small volume on macOS

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For some reason I have a really small volume (3.1 KB) that I can't remove (because I can't format or mount).

Is there a way to hard delete this stubborn volume?

I'm using Catalina last version (10.15.2). What I've already tried:

  • Repair disk fails with:

    File system check exit code is 8.

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  • Erase volume fails with:

    The chosen size is not valid for the chosen filesystem (-69850)

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  • Mount fails with:

    com.apple.DiskManagement.disenter error -119930868.

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Disk info:
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Lincoln

Posted 2019-12-25T14:42:43.710

Reputation: 11

I don't think there's a way to do anything useful with that space, since you can't expand the APFS container at its beginning (just at the end). You might be able to back up everything in the APFS container (make sure it works!), then erase the entire disk. – Gordon Davisson – 2019-12-26T09:01:39.710

Are you happy to just convert this tiny volume to unallocated space? If so you can try sudo gpt remove -i 2 /dev/disk3 . Check the index for this partition is indeed 2 first with sudo gpt -r show /dev/disk3 Alternatively you can delete partition 2 using gdisk (run sudo gdisk /dev/disk3 then options d, 2, s, w). You may need to temporarily disable SIP first.

– lx07 – 2019-12-26T13:10:24.300

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