On Nov 20, 2005, at 3:47 AM, Aaron wrote:
I'm running OS X 10.3.9. I'm trying to change various volumes on
one of my drives without affecting the rest of the volumes. Changes
I'm trying to make include (1) creating a volume from free space
that I originally left for that purpose and (2) erasing and
combining two or more adjacent volumes into a new volume. When I
try to do it with Disk Utility (v. 10.4.4), the only option I seem
to have after apparently making the desired changes is to click on
the "Partition" button, which gives dire warnings about erasing all
volumes on the disk. Of course, I cancel that. Anything else I do
loses the changes I'm trying to make.
I should also mention that the disk I'm trying to modify was
probably formatted with Silverlining Pro 6.something. I don't get
any mention of this from Disk Utility, however, so I doubt it's the
problem.
I've also tried doing it with pdisk in the Terminal. After
switching user to root, I can execute the pdisk commands but can't
write the changes to disk. I know I could do this by booting into
9.2.2 and running pdisk there, but I'm trying to get used to X.
Any suggestions?
Back up, reformat as desired, restore. There is no other way to do
what you want. There are utilities to create new partitions, but not
combine them.
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Bruce Johnson
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