Nope, you can't resize an NTF partition. However, if you don't have anything of value on that drive yet, you can create 2 partitions, 1 being NTFS and the other being Journal if you wish too!
Yes, you will loose any data on that drive, but, you will only have to do it once. On Sep 11, 2011, at 6:54 AM, Anouk Radix wrote: > Hi, well now that you mention it, i will try looking in disk utility again. > But i realized that my external disk has 1 partition on it that spans the > whole disk and is ntfs. I suppose i cant just shrink that partition and > create a new one, because disk utility does not support ntfs natively. Is > there something like partition magic for the mac that I might use for this > instead? > Thanks for all the quick replies everyone, > Greetings, Anouk, > On Sep 11, 2011, at 3:51 AM, Jon Cohn wrote: > >> Does disk utility not understand the partition map, or can you not find the >> option to partition the disk? >> >> Usually disks have 2 or more icons in Disk Utility, and only the first one >> has a tap to modify the partition table. >> >> Best wishes, >> >> Jonathan >> >> On Sep 10, 2011, at 3:06 AM, Anouk Radix wrote: >> >>> Hi everyone, >>> I have installed macfuse and the tuxera for mac driver so now I can read >>> and write to ntfs drives. I want to make a superduper backup of my >>> encrypted hd though and would like to make a partition for this on the >>> external hard drive because i want that partition to be extended journal >>> encrypted as is my macs hard drive. I cant seem to create a new partition >>> with disk utility though. Is there a program I could use for this? >>> thanks, >>> Greetings, Anouk, >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
