I do that since about 2006 with iPartition.app from Coriolis Systems. I have since all my Computers and external HD split into several partitons and ajust them according to needs. Works easy and painless, on the go, and I had never ran into any problems so far. Can only recommend it.
Rudolf (Note: I'm not a stockholder of Coriolis :-) Am 07.08.2013 um 00.35 schrieb Michael: > 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? > > (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? > > 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? _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
