Partition Type: FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF appeared when tried to remove Linux(UBUNTU 18.04) from dual boot from Mac

Question

I earlier had dual-booted my MacBook Pro(2013), Catalina OS with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. I wished to remove it, so I erased the unwanted partition in disk utility and restarted my mac, it did not show the macOS symbol in refind so I started in internet recovery mode. Afterwards, I

followed step by step till the step where I removed my third and second partitions. Since my MacBook is working on Catalina OS and the guide was given according to the Sierra, I refrained from going further. Please help me out since I'm not that terminal savvy.

Answer 1

1. Remove the second and the third partition:

   gpt remove -i 3 /dev/disk0
   gpt remove -i 2 /dev/disk0
   

2. Add the (former) second partiton with the proper size and partition type:

   gpt add -i 2 -b 409640 -s 461916744 -t apfs /dev/disk0
   

3. Check disk0 and the resulting synthesized APFS container scheme with diskutil:

   diskutil list #get the deviceID of the APFS container scheme
   diskutil verifyDisk disk0
   diskutil verifyVolume diskX #diskX: deviceID of the APFS container scheme
   

Assuming you want to resize the APFS container to the full size of the disk (500 GB) you have to enter:

diskutil apfs resizeContainer disk0s2 0