> On Aug 6, 2013, at 3:35 PM, Michael <[email protected]> wrote: > > With Disk Utility in 10.7.5, it's pretty simple to shrink partitions. > > Can the result of several free gaps be combined; can those shrunk partitions > be moved so that the free space is all in one place for allocating something > else?
Drive Genius is the only tool I know of that is willing to do this. It's possible you can do it with low-level terminal commands, but I've never screwed with that. > > (Note that the only way I know of to grow a partition is to extend its end > farther; if I could join two partitions into one, I could just make a new one > in front, join them, and then shrink the result. I don't know how to join two > partitions. Are the partition tools/utilities really this limited, or am I > ignorant of something?) > > (I know that there is a "gpt" terminal command, but it seems very restricted > compared to linux's fdisk.) > > === > > I want to shrink the last partition on a drive; this partition holds some > old, archival time machine backups (think of it as a last resort, emergency > boot partition -- it dates to just after running migration assistant > initially). However, Disk Utility won't shrink it. Is this because it has > time machine data, or is there something else that causes this problem? > When I've seen this problem, it usually means that the partition is not a standard Mac OS journalized partition. Usually, disk utility is very good about shrinking and growing standard partitions, but it absolutely refuses of the partition is some other type. It also may fail if the drive is formatted as Apple partition map or master boot record. > Is there anything that can be done? I have enough space on an external USB > drive to clone it; can it be "cloned" to a slightly smaller version of itself? > > --- > Entertaining minecraft videos > http://YouTube.com/keybounce > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
