Alex, I need to correct you on your below note. You can definitely safely resize a startup partition while running on it using Disc Utility.
Simply select the appropriate partition by clicking on it. (I used my MacBook's track pad button) and, provided that there is adequate space on your drive, you can simply type the desired size in the 'size' edit field. -Click apply; confirm and you're done!… -Simple as that. Obviously, if you try to make your startup disc smaller than it can actually be while still maintaining all of your software, you'll run into issues. <smile> So working with partitions should definitely be done with care, but it certainly is doable with Disc Util live, and on the fly as it were. <smile> Thanks for your note and have a great rest of your weekend!… Smiles, Cara :) --- Follow me on Twitter! https://twitter.com/ModelCara View my Online Portfolio at: http://www.onemodelplace.com/CaraQuinn On Apr 11, 2009, at 12:17 AM, Alex Jurgensen wrote: Hi, Use IPartition. Or, if you are adventurous or have a sighted person around, GParted Live CD. However, I'd use IPartition which is $50. It is much safer because we are sure it does the job. I don't know how VO Friendly it is, but when you shrink or expand a start-up disk, you can't because the disk is in use. If you did Target Disk Mode from another Mac and did it, it would let you, but it would make the partition unusable for startup. I messed up many a disk that way. Thanks, Alex, On 10-Apr-09, at 6:03 PM, Cara Quinn wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
