Even if you by the commercial driver, I am fairly sure that you can resize an NTFS partition with the built in drive utility, after all, this is a mac! You might be able to do it with a third party program, I am not sure about that.
On Sep 11, 2011, at 4:13 PM, Anouk Radix wrote: > /Hi, unfortunately I downloaded 800gig of data for that drive beforeI got my > mac. I want to save that and dont have any other disk to do it on, so I > either buy the commercial ntfs driver, or get a program that can shrink an > ntfs partition. > Greetings, Anouk, > On Sep 11, 2011, at 11:00 PM, Dan Roy wrote: > >> Nope, you can't resize an NTF partition. However, if you don't have >> anything of value on that drive yet, you can create 2 partitions, 1 being >> NTFS and the other being Journal if you wish too! >> >> Yes, you will loose any data on that drive, but, you will only have to do it >> once. >> >> >> On Sep 11, 2011, at 6:54 AM, Anouk Radix wrote: >> >>> Hi, well now that you mention it, i will try looking in disk utility again. >>> But i realized that my external disk has 1 partition on it that spans the >>> whole disk and is ntfs. I suppose i cant just shrink that partition and >>> create a new one, because disk utility does not support ntfs natively. Is >>> there something like partition magic for the mac that I might use for this >>> instead? >>> Thanks for all the quick replies everyone, >>> Greetings, Anouk, >>> On Sep 11, 2011, at 3:51 AM, Jon Cohn wrote: >>> >>>> Does disk utility not understand the partition map, or can you not find >>>> the option to partition the disk? >>>> >>>> Usually disks have 2 or more icons in Disk Utility, and only the first one >>>> has a tap to modify the partition table. >>>> >>>> Best wishes, >>>> >>>> Jonathan >>>> >>>> On Sep 10, 2011, at 3:06 AM, Anouk Radix wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi everyone, >>>>> I have installed macfuse and the tuxera for mac driver so now I can read >>>>> and write to ntfs drives. I want to make a superduper backup of my >>>>> encrypted hd though and would like to make a partition for this on the >>>>> external hard drive because i want that partition to be extended journal >>>>> encrypted as is my macs hard drive. I cant seem to create a new partition >>>>> with disk utility though. Is there a program I could use for this? >>>>> thanks, >>>>> Greetings, Anouk, >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> 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. >>>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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. >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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. >>> >> >> -- >> 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. >> > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
