On May 29, 2012, at 1:36 PM, Courtney Curran wrote:
Hi,
I don't need the 3rd partition, and I want to remove it to increase
the space of the one partition that contains my growing itunes
library, so I figured I'd have to remove the unneeded one to expand
the itunes partition.
Expanding partitions isn't as easy as that.
You'd be better off just mounting the empty partition somewhere under
your itunes hirarchy, since expanding usually entails backing up the
partition, removing both the backed up one, and the unwanted one,
then creating a new partition to fill the whole space, then restore
all your files.
Much simpler just to mount the empty one somewhere itunes will use it.
But, since that's easier said than done for non-terminal folks, you
may be better served doing the whole backup, delete, rebuild, restore
thing.
There's probably some way using apple provided utilities to change
where your partitions are mounted, (maybe disk utility can do this?)
but I've never tried doing this with said tools, so can't say for sure.
I tend to do things the old unix way, and just edit system files
directly, but that's generally not the best approach.
Perhaps someone else has a utility that can do what you're asking,
but using apple provided tools, I'm not sure it's doable without the
whole backup/rebuild/restore cycle.
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