Mac mini M2 free space blocked

[ahmeier]

I tried to install Ubuntu using the install script, but even after removing all local timemachine snapshots and completing all software updates the free space on the internal HD remains blocked. I have a 1TB internal HD and there is 380GB of free space when checking on disk utility. I can add additional APFS containers, but the install script complains of overhead blocking the free space. It seems that for some reason it is impossible to access the existing free space.

Hardware: Mac Mini M2 model 13,14

Any suggestions what else to do?

[tobhe]

Hi! Hard to tell what exactly is wrong without some more information. Can you show us the output of diskutil list?

[eslerm]

@ahmeier the attached logs did not format well. Could you please fix-up the markdown in your comment?

Disabling Time Machine and Asahi's Partition Cheatsheet may help.

[ahmeier]

Sorry, sent comment by email, here is the better formatted output: /dev/disk0 (internal, physical): | #: |TYPE NAME |SIZE. | IDENTIFIER| | 0: |GUID_partition_scheme |*1.0 TB | disk0 | 1: |Apple_APFS_ISC Container disk1 | 524.3 MB | disk0s1 | 2:|Apple_APFS Container disk3 | 994.7 GB | disk0s2 | 3:|Apple_APFS_Recovery Container disk2| 5.4 GB disk0s3

/dev/disk3 (synthesized):

: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: APFS Container Scheme - +994.7 GB disk3 Physical Store disk0s2 1: APFS Volume Macintosh HD 10.1 GB disk3s1 2: APFS Snapshot com.apple.os.update-... 10.1 GB disk3s1s1 3: APFS Volume Preboot 6.0 GB disk3s2 4: APFS Volume Recovery 909.4 MB disk3s3 5: APFS Volume Data 632.8 GB disk3s5 6: APFS Volume VM 1.1 GB disk3s6

[tobhe]

I can't spot anything obviously wrong in there. As @eslerm said it might have to do with time machine, see https://github.com/AsahiLinux/asahi-installer/issues/86