yeah, i just want to turn bback to yosemite since the disk utility is much less complicated. i tried partitioning and repartitioning on yosemite before but i have no problem on that. only here on el capitan. > On 03 Oct 2015, at 7:49 AM, Grant <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I’ve had this same problem with OS X Yosemite where unallocated space was > difficult to manage on my primary volume once I tried to manually repartition > the disk. I think it has something to do with Yosemite and up converting > disks to core storage (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_Storage). I > researched this in quite a bit of depth some weeks ago and I found many > interesting ideas for resolving the problem, like this one > (http://awesometoast.com/yosemite-core-storage-and-partition-woes/). However, > I decided to try something much simpler first. Rather than booting from the > recovery partition, I booted from Internet Recovery using COMMAND+OPTION+R. > This recreates the recovery partition and does some quick tests as well on > your hard drive and memory. For whatever reason, doing this caused my free > space to show as being reallocated back to my startup partition. Give it a > shot and if you don’t want to erase your disk, which I understand, it may be > worth doing some further reading on the topic of core storage and > partitioning as I’m far from an expert on the topic. And the usual > disclaimers apply, e.g. back up your data before attempting any > troubleshooting steps. > > Grant > > On Oct 2, 2015, at 2:45 PM, Dionipher Presas Herrera <[email protected]> > wrote: > > yes i did all that, but there was a thread on mac rumors that on el capitan > this is broke. i need a command on terminal. can somebody help. >> On 02 Oct 2015, at 5:51 PM, Jeffrey Shockley <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> Here’s what I did. This might work, not sure, since I didn’t change anything. >> What you need to do is find where it has the name of the device in the >> table, at the very top, and click Partition in the toolbar. It looks like >> you can resize and add and remove partitions from there. >> I hope this helps, >> Jeffrey >>> On Oct 2, 2015, at 11:33 AM, Dionipher Presas Herrera <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> i did already tried it but the problem still exist. when i try to expand my >>> hard drive to 500 i wil automatically goes to 143 gb, which i am trying to >>> partition a while ago. >>>> On 02 Oct 2015, at 5:23 PM, Dionipher Presas Herrera <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> ok, i'll try >>>>> On 02 Oct 2015, at 5:04 PM, Jeffrey Shockley <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> The easiest thing would be that I can think of is to boot into Recovery >>>>> Mode and open Disc Utility from there, and just the partition there. It >>>>> just might work. :) >>>>> Hope this helps, >>>>> Jeffrey >>>>>> On Oct 2, 2015, at 10:43 AM, Dionipher Presas Herrera >>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> hello everyone can somebody help me adjust my hard disk i accidentally >>>>>> lower my hard drive to 100 gb now my computer is saying that my start up >>>>>> disk is almost ful. but i do have 512 gb disk. i can't adjust it on my >>>>>> disk utility from el capitan now. thanks for the help >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> 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. >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> 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. >>> >>> -- >>> 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. >> >> -- >> 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. > > -- > 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. > > -- > 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.
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