Hi, This seems to depend on a number of factors. Specifically, how many partitions do you have on this disk? If only two, then your issue is indeed a problem. If more than two, then I'll explain a few things that may help.
• Let's say, for argument's sake, that you have three partitions. Macintosh HD, HD-2 and HD-3. • using Disk Utility or Terminal, you can determine the disk identifier for these volumes. • For fun, I'll say that they came up as disk0s2, disk0s3 and disk0s4 respectively. • So, if you remove disk0s3, you can easily expand Macintosh HD (dis0s2) into the free space provided by the removal of disk0s3. • But, f disk0s4 is the partition that was removed, then your frustrations begin. Because disk0s4 is sequentially after disk0s3, you cannot combine disk0s2 with disks4. The reason for this is that disk0s3 is logically "in the way" of any expansion. • Confirm the disk identifiers while in Disk Utility by selecting the partition from the table and the last item on the screen will display the disk identifier, such as disk3s3. • In Terminal, use "distil list" to see all the disk info you'll ever need. • This gets a little more complicated if you have a Fusion drive or or if things are formatted in the new APFS format. Still possible, but some different arguments. With all this said, if your partition map has it so that your free space is not directly connected to the Macintosh HD partition, then the only way you could manipulate things to your favour would be to backup or copy the data from the other partition to a totally different target, remove that partition, then expand the Macintosh HD into the free space and finally re-create a partition for this data to return to. There are also methods within Terminal that can allow merging of partitions, but the same restrictions are applied with respect to identifier numbering. I hope this makes some sort of sense. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Oct 12, 2017, at 22:25, Oriol Gómez Sentís <[email protected]> wrote: Hello all: I am trying to use disk utility to enlarge a partition. I deleted the other volume, and I would like to enlarge my boot volume. How can I do it? the pi chart seems to be inaccessible… Has anyone else done this before or os there a way to do it with terminal? Thanks bunches. Oriol Gómez Sentís T: (+34)620788049 Website: http://www.oriolgomez.com -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: [email protected] and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[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 https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: [email protected] and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[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 https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
