hey, even if you think something is something is highlighted you cannot change the partition scheme that current button is always grade out. if you ever figure out a way to do it step by step and send instructions I would be most grateful to you. thanks
Michael. On 27 Jul 2014, at 2:47 pm, Cheryl Homiak <cah4...@icloud.com> wrote: > 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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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