I made sure to select the proper partition from the scroll area, and the size did show up. The thing it, any value I enter in the size text field is replaced by 8.34 no matter what. VO indicates that, in the scroll area, there is a "resize control", but I can't figure out how that is supposed to work. The options button is also dimmed for no apparent reason. On Jul 26, 2014, at 1:32 AM, Barry Hadder <[email protected]> wrote:
> Sounds like you don't have the partition in question selected. > Interact with the scroll area containing the partitions and vo-space on the > one you want. Then all the things you want should be enabled. > Also note that unless it has been fixed, the installation does something > strange to an existing partitioning scheme. After the install, all of your > partitions may be contained in a logical partition of the same name as the > Yosemite. Not to worry however as erasing the Yosemite partition will put > everything back to normal. At least that has been my experience. > > On Jul 25, 2014, at 11:31 PM, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > I'm trying to test Yosemite, and I've been running it off an old thumb drive. > Needless to say, I've hit serious lag issues that practically prevent me from > using the system. I'd like to partition my (admittedly small) internal disk > instead, so I've moved my Windows VM off for now, leaving me with what Finder > tells me is about 19GB free. > > I opened up Disk utility and selected my internal disk, then hit the > Partition tab, then Add. I did this same thing to the afore mentioned thumb > drive, and it was a snap. Now, trying to do this on my internal disk, I'm > getting odd behavior. > > * Despite having almost 19GB available, the new partition is stuck at 8.34GB > and I can't change it. When I type a new size, it automatically reverts to > 8.34 seconds later. > * I can't open the options to check my table is correct because the button is > dimmed. > * I can't find a place to name the new partition. > * The number of partitions (the popup menu) is dimmed. This is not a problem > since the add/remove buttons work, but it was not dimmed when I partitioned > my thumb drive. > > What am I missing? Do I need to shrink the existing partition? If so, I don't > know that I can - I tried, but that seemed to make no difference. I don't > know why this is so much harder than that thumb drive, but it's giving me no > end of trouble for some reason. Can anyone offer any help? Thanks! > -- > Have a great day, > Alex Hall > [email protected] > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > Barry Hadder > [email protected] > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Have a great day, Alex Hall [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
