Boot to macOS Recovery by holding ⌘-R as you turn your Mac on.Be careful not to delete the Windows bootloader. If you try to format a Mac HFS (HFS+) formatted drive with the Windows Disk Management tool, youll discover a stubborn EFI partition that evades all attempts. Now rename the newly copied bootmgfw.efi to boot圆4.efi. Paste it in that Boot folder in the EFI folder of the EFI disk from where you had deleted boot圆4.efi. If you have Windows installed with Bootcamp, Enter Microsoft folder and then the Boot folder inside the Microsoft folder and copy bootmgfw.efi.Enter the Boot folder and remove boot圆4.efi.Remove any folders other than Apple, Boot, or Microsoft.There will now be an EFI disk visible in Finder, open it and go into the EFI folder (within the EFI disk).In macOS run sudo diskutil mount disk0s1, which mounts your EFI System Partition.If using the EFI partition already available in your Mac. In 2 years they are removing the 2 best MacOS ever released, before Apple started to downgrade features in MacOS (and obviously adding some other too), especially related to all backup workflows, that now are more complex, but even to permissions and multiple other things. Removing the Linux boot-loader ¶ If using a separate EFI partition ¶įollow the same steps to remove the seperate EFI partition as you followed to remove the Linux partition. While it does this, consider the fact that you didn't need admin to remove your Linux partition. This may take a while, but do not interrupt this process. Disk Utility will remove your Linux partition and expand your macOS partition.Your macOS partition should expand to fill the space that Linux was in. Select your Linux partition, and click - to remove it.You may want to do this from macOS Recovery as you will be resizing (expanding) your startup disk, although you don't need to. It shouldn't matter what distro you are using.

This page explains how to remove Linux from your Mac.

Removing a partition mac