Sounds like you don't have the partition in question selected. Interact with the scroll area containing the partitions and vo-space on the one you want. Then all the things you want should be enabled. Also note that unless it has been fixed, the installation does something strange to an existing partitioning scheme. After the install, all of your partitions may be contained in a logical partition of the same name as the Yosemite. Not to worry however as erasing the Yosemite partition will put everything back to normal. At least that has been my experience.
On Jul 25, 2014, at 11:31 PM, Alex Hall <mehg...@icloud.com> wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to test Yosemite, and I've been running it off an old thumb drive. Needless to say, I've hit serious lag issues that practically prevent me from using the system. I'd like to partition my (admittedly small) internal disk instead, so I've moved my Windows VM off for now, leaving me with what Finder tells me is about 19GB free. I opened up Disk utility and selected my internal disk, then hit the Partition tab, then Add. I did this same thing to the afore mentioned thumb drive, and it was a snap. Now, trying to do this on my internal disk, I'm getting odd behavior. * Despite having almost 19GB available, the new partition is stuck at 8.34GB and I can't change it. When I type a new size, it automatically reverts to 8.34 seconds later. * I can't open the options to check my table is correct because the button is dimmed. * I can't find a place to name the new partition. * The number of partitions (the popup menu) is dimmed. This is not a problem since the add/remove buttons work, but it was not dimmed when I partitioned my thumb drive. What am I missing? Do I need to shrink the existing partition? If so, I don't know that I can - I tried, but that seemed to make no difference. I don't know why this is so much harder than that thumb drive, but it's giving me no end of trouble for some reason. Can anyone offer any help? Thanks! -- Have a great day, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com -- 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. Barry Hadder bhad...@gmail.com -- 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
