First of all, make sure you are highlighting a disk and not a partition when you are going to partition. Secondly, if you are partitioning and not resizing, you need to choose a partition scheme and don't leave it on "current". Thirdly, there's a way you have to interact with the scroll area and then tab one or more times and stop interacting to see which partition you are working on. I don't know if any of these are your problem but I know these were difficulties I ran into while learning to partition and I remember that what I got right seemed like luck to me at first because I made it work but didn't understand how I had done it. I can do it reliably now but am not sure how good I'd be at explaining it unless I could do it step by step and write down my explanation while doing it.
> -- > Cheryl > I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. > I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper thrown in the trash! > Then God gave me a new heart and life: > His joy for my despairing tears! > And now, every day: > "This I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: > The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; > his mercies never come to an end; > they are new every morning; > great is your faithfulness." > (Lamentations 3:21-23 ESV) > On Jul 26, 2014, at 11:35 PM, Michael Marshall <mightymaggie...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > hey, > the main problem with DU is that even when you highlight the correct drive > that you want to work on all of the partition buttons are grade out. In > recovery mode or even another bootable install it just does not work for me > at the moment. I have tried everything under the sun and its only through > some pro dumb luck that i now have two partitions. > i have a 2.4TB partition which the Mac operating system is installed on and a > 900GB partition with nothing on it. I want to somehow get that 900 GB back to > the first partition but can’t make it happen. >> On 27 Jul 2014, at 7:33 am, Cheryl Homiak <cah4...@icloud.com> wrote: >> >> What I think you may not be understanding is that by writing in an amount >> instead of just working the resizer you usually aren't going to get the >> exact fraction needed for resizing so you are going to get an error and/or a >> different size than you thought you requested. This isn't a matter of DU >> falling down with voiceover as far as I can see. >> >> >>> -- >>> Cheryl >>> I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. >>> I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper thrown in the trash! >>> Then God gave me a new heart and life: >>> His joy for my despairing tears! >>> And now, every day: >>> "This I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: >>> The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; >>> his mercies never come to an end; >>> they are new every morning; >>> great is your faithfulness." >>> (Lamentations 3:21-23 ESV) >> >> >>> On Jul 26, 2014, at 3:30 PM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu <listse...@me.com> wrote: >>> >>> I'm not sure why DU is forcing such a small value. You ought to be able to >>> specify any size up to a maximum for each partition such that they all >>> occupy all of the space of the entire disk. This is really where DU just >>> falls down, as far as VO support is concerned. >>> >>> You're correct that about 51GB is in use by the entire partition; that's >>> what your diskutil output shows. >>> >>> The process is non-destructive (hopefully ...) and the space right now is >>> between your primary partition and the recovery area; it's unusable while >>> it's unpartitioned space. The worst that is likely to happen is that >>> you'll be told why you can't resize. >>> >>> In the command that I gave you, replace "70%" with "45G" (no quotes) to get >>> what you are asking for exactly. >>> >>> -- >>> 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. >> >> >> -- >> 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. > > -- > 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. -- 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.