Hi John, Interesting point, as it happens the scratch is the second partition and I am seeing exactly what you describe.
I mat back up the contents of the scratch disk, delete that partition then start again. Steve. On 30 May 2012, at 10:48, John Patrick wrote: > Is the scratch partition the 1st or 2nd partition. > > The reason I ask is because I've had experiences where I reduced the > 1st partition but the 2nd partition would still not increase as it > would only extend from the end. i.e. you can't extend it into the > space before the current partition, but it will extend into space > after the current partition. > > Not sure if that was issue with Mac, that disk or something else. So > might be red herring. > > John > > On 30 May 2012 10:41, Steve Davies <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Toby, >> >> Tried reducing the scratch partition as there is not much on there, that was >> easy, but disk utility will not let me increase the size of the back up >> volume. >> >> Beats me, >> >> Steve. >> >> On 30 May 2012, at 10:34, Toby Leighton wrote: >> >> You can in a fiddly kind of way, You'll have to make one smaller first, and >> then the other one bigger. >> >> You are limited to a degree by how much data is saved in each partition. If >> the partitions are empty you can set them to be almost any size, if they are >> full of data then the partition boundarys have to be "around" the data. >> >> On 30 May 2012 10:21, Steve Davies <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi folks, >>> >>> I am running Snow Leopard and have run out of space on my stand alone hard >>> drive for running time machine back ups. >>> >>> I have a 1TB drive which was partitioned roughly 50/50 one partition for >>> back ups, the other as a scratch disk. >>> >>> However, since increasing the size of my iMac drive a few moths ago and >>> adding more software, time machine is now telling me I need over 500 GB in >>> order to back up. >>> >>> I have been into disk utility to look at changing the size of the >>> partitions and while I can make either partition smaller, it will not let me >>> increase the size of a partition. >>> >>> Q: Is there a way to do this? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Steve. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "Sussex Mac User Group" group. >>> To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. >>> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Sussex Mac User Group" group. >> To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Sussex Mac User Group" group. >> To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
