Can't create new partition (Failed to run process: diskutil apfs resizeContainer)

[YousufSSyed]

This is the output when trying to create a new partition for Asahi Linux:

» New size (50%): 

Resizing will free up 247.19 GB of space.

Note: your system may appear to freeze during the resize.
This is normal, just wait until the process completes.
» Continue? (y/N): n
» New size (50%): 

Resizing will free up 247.19 GB of space.

Note: your system may appear to freeze during the resize.
This is normal, just wait until the process completes.
» Continue? (y/N): y

Started APFS operation
Aligning shrink delta to 247,192,440,832 bytes and targeting a new physical store size of 247,192,354,816 bytes
Determined the minimum size for the targeted physical store of this APFS Container to be 288,501,006,336 bytes
Error: -69521: Your APFS Container resize request is below the APFS-system-imposed minimal container size (perhaps caused by APFS Snapshot usage by Time Machine)
Failed to run process: diskutil apfs resizeContainer disk0s2 247192354816
root        : ERROR    Process execution failed
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/private/tmp/asahi-install/main.py", line 820, in <module>
    InstallerMain().main()
  File "/private/tmp/asahi-install/main.py", line 672, in main
    while self.main_loop():
  File "/private/tmp/asahi-install/main.py", line 792, in main_loop
    return self.action_resize(parts_resizable)
  File "/private/tmp/asahi-install/main.py", line 612, in action_resize
    self.dutil.resizeContainer(target.name, val)
  File "/private/tmp/asahi-install/diskutil.py", line 208, in resizeContainer
    self.action("apfs", "resizeContainer", name, size, verbose=2)
  File "/private/tmp/asahi-install/diskutil.py", line 38, in action
    subprocess.run(["diskutil"] + list(args), check=True)
  File "/private/tmp/asahi-install/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/subprocess.py", line 528, in run
    raise CalledProcessError(retcode, process.args,
subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['diskutil', 'apfs', 'resizeContainer', 'disk0s2', '247192354816']' returned non-zero exit status 1.
If you need to file a bug report, please attach the log file:
  /private/tmp/asahi-install/installer.log

Here's the installer log:
installer.log

[YousufSSyed]

So I figured it out now I ran the command diskutil apfs resizeContainer disk0s2 247192354816 and it said:

Error: -69531: There is not enough free space in the APFS Container for this operation due to APFS limits or APFS tidemarks (perhaps caused by APFS Snapshot usage by Time Machine)

I then found I need to delete all time machine backups. First disable Time Machine in Preference, then you can list all time machine backups tmutil listlocalsnapshots /, and finally delete them all with tmutil deletelocalsnapshots /. Try the installer again, if it doesn't work, you can sort of fiddle with it by increasing the macOS partition size and or delete all the backups again.

[marcan]

Duplicate of #86