Re: unable to partition external SSD

2018-12-20 Thread Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [C]
Hello again, I found an answer to my question. I googled and found the following command, which seems to have worked: diskutil partitionDisk disk2 1 GPT HFS+ newdisk R I ran this in a Terminal window, where my SSD is "disk2" (as seen in Disk Utility) and "newdisk" is the name I gave to the

unable to partition external SSD

2018-12-20 Thread Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [C]
Hi, I just bought a 500-GB external SSD (Samsung T5). It was originally in EX-FAT format, but I used Disk Utility to reformat as MacOS. I would like to partition this SSD, but the partition button in Disk Utility is gray. The other buttons (First Aid, Erase, Restore, Unmount) are all