Andrew,
thank you so much for this. I must have missed your original message. I
appreciate your patience in answering a question you have already answered.
Chris
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Lamanche" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2012 9:42 PM
Subject: Re: Partitioning and External Drive
Chris,
I've recently posted a message to the list describing my experience of
partitioning an external drive with Voiceover. I will paste the content of
that message below. although I chose to accept the default partition sizes,
I believe that as you go through the steps I describe, rather than having to
drag the splitter to decide on the size of your partitions yo you can simply
type in the number of GBs you want for each, just the number should do.
"
I thought I'd post my experience of partitioning an external usb drive
under mac os Lion in case somebody else needed to do this in the
future.
I've bought a 1 TB external hard drive, and I wanted to partition it
so that it has two different volumes. This is how I accomplished it in
Mac OS Lion.
I connected my USB drive to my mac.
1. Open Disk Utility (from the finder, shortcut key, command+shift+u),
and then start typing disk utility to get there.
2. In the table of all available disks, find the disk you wish to partition.
3. Stop interacting with the table of your disks and move to the right
through the available tabs until you've reached "partition" tab. Press
vo+space to select it.
4. Move right to hear "partition layout" popup button. Here yo you can
choose how many partitions you wish to have on your drive. In my case,
I chose two partitions.
5. Move to the right. You will encounter a field that Voiceover
reports as something like "name text field". At this stage this field
will be reported as dimmed which means that you cannot do anything
with it.
6. Move to the right and yo you will hear "scroll area". This is where
it gets interesting. Remember, I chose to partition my external drive
into two.
7. Interact with the scroll area. You will be able to navigate with
vo+arrow keys here, and you will hear: "untitled1 plus some info about
the value of the default size of the partition" and if you move right,
you will hear "horizontal splitter" and then, "untitled2" with the
value of the default size of the partition. At this point, you can't
do anything with these areas. However, in order to be able to name
your partitions, you have to do the following steps.
8. While still interacting with the scroll area, place your Voiceover
cursor on the first untitled area. If you have a mac that has a
trackpad which by default is enabled with Voiceover, first disabled
the trackpad commander with vo + rotor left. Voiceover will say
trackpad commander off. Then bring your ouse cursor to the Voiceover
cursor with vo+command+f5. Confirm with vo+f5 that you are on the
untitled1 field and then physically click the mouse/trackpad.
9. At this point, Disk Utility got busy for me and I had to force quit
it. To avoid this, after you had physically clicked the mouse pad,
turn Voiceover off and then on again (don't rush the process), and
then stop interacting with the scroll area and move left to the "name
text field".
10. You will notice, that now Voiceover announces "name text field" as
untitled1 and it is not dimmed so that yo you can enter the name of
your volume here.
11. After you are done with this partition, interact with the scroll
area again, only this time move to the "untitled2" and perform the
same actions here as you had done with "untitled1'. Then again, as
soon as you physically click the trackpad, turn Voiceover off, and
then turn it on again, and then stop interacting with the scroll area
and move to the left to the "name" field where you can now enter the
name of your second partition."
Hope this will help.
Andrew
On 1 Aug 2012, at 19:18, Christopher Edwards wrote:
Hello,
I want to partition an external drive but I want one partition to be
considerably smaller than the other. From reading the Disk Utilities help
and some other sources it seems you are supposed to adjust a slider to set
the sizes. Is this accessible by Voiceover and does it tell you the sizes?
I also see that you can enter a number for the size but what are the units
you use for specifying the size?
Many thanks,
Chris
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