If you can't resize it then it is as large as it can be. Removing your vm freed of 19 gigs on your main partition. That does not meen that you have 19 gigs free on the drive. You probably need to delete the new partition and then shrink the main partition.
On Jul 26, 2014, at 7:28 AM, Alex Hall <mehg...@icloud.com> wrote: I made sure to select the proper partition from the scroll area, and the size did show up. The thing it, any value I enter in the size text field is replaced by 8.34 no matter what. VO indicates that, in the scroll area, there is a "resize control", but I can't figure out how that is supposed to work. The options button is also dimmed for no apparent reason. On Jul 26, 2014, at 1:32 AM, Barry Hadder <bhad...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. -- 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.
