According to your du list output, you had a 51.5 gig main partition and you said that finder reports 10 gigs free. You can't shrink the 51gb partition down to 45gb with only 10gb left.
On Jul 27, 2014, at 5:23 PM, Alex Hall <mehg...@icloud.com> wrote: According to Finder, I have a 60GB hard drive total, and about 20GB of total free space to work with. I'm making the Yosemite partition 15GB, or trying to, which should be enough room. On Jul 27, 2014, at 6:02 PM, Barry Hadder <bhad...@gmail.com> wrote: > I believe you are waisting time. > If you only have 10 gigs free, than you can't shrink it down any more. You > need 8 gigs for installation and another 15 percent of that for updates. > That gives you an absolute minimum of 9.2 gigs. > As I said before, if disk utility won't let you shrink something, then there > is a reason. It means that you need to recheck your arithmetic. > > On Jul 26, 2014, at 3:14 PM, Alex Hall <mehg...@icloud.com> wrote: > > Before I do this, I have a question: where'd my extra space go? I > successfully used Disk Utility to resize my Macintosh HD down earlier, but > that gave me no extra free space. Well, the size Disk Utility forces me to > use went from 8.34GB to 8.79GB, but that's after I resized the main partition > down by 14GB or so. Did that not do what I thought it would? I'm asking > because I'd hate to do all this again just to have nothing work. Right now, > my Macintosh HD reports 51GB total, with 10GB free, in Finder. That is > despite my telling Disk Utility to resize it to 45GB, not 51. > On Jul 26, 2014, at 4:01 PM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu <listse...@me.com> wrote: > >> OK, so we now know that you do, in fact, only have about 8GB of >> unpartitioned space. Let's resize this to 70% of the disk, leaving 30% for >> your testing--that would be about 20GB. Adjust as required. You'd type >> this, and enter your password (hope you've got that backup): >> sudo diskutil resizeVolume disk0s2 70% JHFS+ Testing 0 >> >> This ought to get your original partition resized to 70%, give or take a >> bit, and get you a second slice called "Testing" for your testing with the >> remainder. The free space is between the first slice and the recovery area. >> >> Hope it works ... >> >> -- >> 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. -- 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.
