diskutil ap deleteContainer disk2 "Macintosh HD"macbook-air-de-sylvestre:~ Sylvestre$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *121.3 GB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_APFS Container disk1 121.1 GB disk0s2
/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: APFS Container Scheme - +121.1 GB disk1
Physical Store disk0s2
1: APFS Volume Macintosh HD - Données 46.9 GB disk1s1
2: APFS Volume Preboot 96.2 MB disk1s2
3: APFS Volume Recovery 528.5 MB disk1s3
4: APFS Volume VM 1.1 GB disk1s4
5: APFS Volume Macintosh HD 10.7 GB disk1s5
/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: FDisk_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk2
1: Windows_NTFS LaCie Sylvestre 1.0 TB disk2s1
macbook-air-de-sylvestre:~ Sylvestre$ df -H
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on
/dev/disk1s5 121G 11G 62G 15% 483305 1182359175 0% /
devfs 193k 193k 0B 100% 652 0 100% /dev
/dev/disk1s1 121G 47G 62G 44% 288731 1182553749 0% /System/Volumes/Data
/dev/disk1s4 121G 1.1G 62G 2% 2 1182842478 0% /private/var/vm
map auto_home 0B 0B 0B 100% 0 0 100% /System/Volumes/Data/home
/dev/disk2s1 1.0T 545G 455G 55% 4578 444709874 0% /Volumes/LaCie Sylvestrediskutil info disk2s1-bash-3.2# diskutil ap deleteContainer disk2 "Macintosh HD"
Started APFS operation on disk2
Deleting APFS Container with all of its APFS Volumes
Unmounting Volumes
Unmounting Volume "Macintosh HD - Données" on disk2s1
Unmounting Volume "Preboot" on disk2s2
Unmounting Volume "Recovery" on disk2s3
Unmounting Volume "VM" on disk2s4
Unmounting Volume "Macintosh HD" on disk2s5
Deleting Volumes
Deleting Container
Wiping former APFS disks
Switching content types
Reformatting former APFS disks
Initialized /dev/rdisk0s2 as a 465 GB case-insensitive HFS Plus volume with a 40960k journal
Mounting disk
1 new disk created or changed due to APFS operation
Disk from APFS operation: disk0s2
Finished APFS operation on disk2
-bash-3.2#diskutil ap convert disk0s2-bash-3.2# diskutil ap convert disk0s2
Converting the volume on disk0s2 to an APFS Volume on an APFS Container
Started APFS operation on disk0s2 Macintosh HD
Converting HFS Volume to an APFS Container which will export one APFS Volume
The target is the Journaled HFS+ volume "Macintosh HD" backed by the GPT partition disk0s2
The target is a macOS system disk
Found APFS EFI driver /usr/standalone/i386/apfs.efi to install into the APFS Container
The target is not encrypted
Unmounting disk0s2
Starting conversion from HFS to APFS
Performing apfs_hfs_convert -x --verbose=0x400 --efi /usr/standalone/i386/apfs.efi /dev/disk0s2
Reporting pre-conversion statistics
Reporting post-conversion statistics
Successfully finished conversion from HFS to APFS
Successful conversion in commit mode so will switch type to APFS
Setting type of disk0s2 to APFS
Changing the physical disk partition type in shared mode
Partition modification attempt count was 1
Opening and closing disk0s2 to terminate old content driver
Expecting the new APFS Container at Physical Store disk0s2
Confirmed existence of new unencrypted APFS Volume disk2s1
Mounting APFS Volume disk2s1
APFS Volume mount attempt result was 0
Exiting conversion operations with error code 0
Disk from APFS operation: disk2s1
Finished APFS operation on disk0s2 Macintosh HD
-bash-3.2#
