Barry, you got it spot on! Thanks very much for the info. I was able to shrink the second partition with VO by simply editing the size in the edit field.
However, I wasn't aware that the placement restrictions of the partitions had an effect on the size of each one. I.E. I wasn't sure if Disc Utility was able to dynamically reallocate empty space. So your note did clear this up for me. Incidentally, I simply deleted the second partition as I have a backup, and resized the first; then lastly, recreated the second out of the remaining space on the drive. -Worked like a charm! You rock! <smile> So now all of my drive space is happy and accounted for! lol! Thanks again and I wish you / yours a lovely weekend!… Smiles, Cara :) --- Follow me on Twitter! https://twitter.com/ModelCara View my Online Portfolio at: http://www.onemodelplace.com/CaraQuinn On Apr 10, 2009, at 8:42 PM, Barry Hadder wrote: Hi Cara, If I understand you correctly, you are trying to decrease the second partition and increase the first. Sorry if I didn't get that right, but for now I'll just go from hear. In order to do what I think you are trying, you would have to shrink the second by moving it over and I don't think you can't do that with the Disk Utility. When you are shrinking it's size, you are shrinking it in place. You are changing the location of it's end-point. So when you try to increase the first, there is nowhere for it to go because the second one is still there even though it is smaller. I think You will have to delete the second, increase the first, and then create another second. Partitioning is very visual and even if you can't see the graphical representation, you still have to have a mental picture of what it looks like... So picture from left to right: first, second. When you shrink the second, it shrinks from right to left. You might understand this all ready and I may have totally misunderstood what you were talking about, but this sounds like to me what's going on. Hope that helped. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cara Quinn" <caraqu...@caraquinn.com> To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> Sent: Friday, April 10, 2009 8:03 PM Subject: Reclaiming unallocated space on an HD Hey All, Happy Friday to you!… I'm wondering if there's an accessible way to reclaim unallocated HD space? I.E. I currently have three partitions on my internal HD, and I've resized one to free up 5 gb of space that I'd like added to another partition. I can do the first resize to decrease one of the partitions just fine with VO. However, when I try to resize the other partition to make it larger, in the exact amount of 5 gb, Disc Util won't let me. It goes through the steps as if it's doing the operation, and does rewrite the partition table, however the size simply doesn't change. eek! I've also tried using amounts less than 5 gb but regardless of the amount I enter, it still seems to flip right back to the size before I edited it. Might anyone have any ideas why this is happening, or what I can do to deal with this?… As it is, I now basically have 5 gb of unallocated space on my HD that I can't seem to access. aaarrrggg! If it makes any diff, I'm doing the resizing from Disc Util on my startup disc, and the first resize made the non-startup partition smaller. (which worked fine) However, as I've been mentioning, I can't seem to increase the size of the startup partition which I'm currently running on. I'm wondering if this is an issue?… I haven't yet tried booting into the second partition and resizing the first from there, but, is this something people think might be worth trying?… -Or is there something else happening here I'm not aware of?… thanks so much for taking time to read this, and any suggestions would sure be appreciated!… Have a wonderful evening / holiday weekend for those whom celebrate!… Smiles, Cara :) --- Follow me on Twitter! https://twitter.com/ModelCara View my Online Portfolio at: http://www.onemodelplace.com/CaraQuinn --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
