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macos – Reclaim free space of container disk after Bootcamp error

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After Bootcamp going wrong I have one disk of 28 GB which space I want to merge back to the main disk:

Main disk:

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This is the diskutil list output:

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *28.0 GB    disk0
   1:                        EFI ⁨EFI⁩                     314.6 MB   disk0s1
                    (free space)                         27.7 GB    -

/dev/disk1 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB   disk1
   1:                        EFI ⁨EFI⁩                     209.7 MB   disk1s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS ⁨Container disk3⁩         499.9 GB   disk1s2

/dev/disk3 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +499.9 GB   disk3
                                 Physical Store disk1s2
   1:                APFS Volume ⁨Macintosh SSD - Gege...⁩ 155.2 GB   disk3s1
   2:                APFS Volume ⁨Preboot⁩                 270.2 MB   disk3s2
   3:                APFS Volume ⁨Recovery⁩                1.1 GB     disk3s3
   4:                APFS Volume ⁨Macintosh SSD⁩           15.4 GB    disk3s4
   5:              APFS Snapshot ⁨com.apple.os.update-...⁩ 15.4 GB    disk3s4s1
   6:                APFS Volume ⁨VM⁩                      2.1 GB     disk3s5

/dev/disk4 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *250.0 GB   disk4
   1:                        EFI ⁨EFI⁩                     209.7 MB   disk4s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS ⁨Container disk6⁩         249.7 GB   disk4s2

/dev/disk5 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *2.0 TB     disk5
   1:                        EFI ⁨EFI⁩                     209.7 MB   disk5s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS ⁨Container disk7⁩         2.0 TB     disk5s2

/dev/disk6 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +249.7 GB   disk6
                                 Physical Store disk4s2
   1:                APFS Volume ⁨SanDisk 256⁩             108.9 GB   disk6s1

/dev/disk7 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +2.0 TB     disk7
                                 Physical Store disk5s2
   1:                APFS Volume ⁨LaCie Time Machine⁩      565.9 GB   disk7s1

NB: There are 2 external USB disks connected which you’ll notice in this list.

Thanks in advance!

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