Dear Chris, It's a pleasure. Glad to have had the time to help. Hope the partitioning has been successful. This list has been a saving grace for me, and I am returning a tiny bit of what I have taken.
Best wishes Andrew On 1 Aug 2012, at 23:09, Christopher Edwards wrote: > Andrew, > > thank you so much for this. I must have missed your original message. I > appreciate your patience in answering a question you have already answered. > > Chris > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Lamanche" > <andrew.laman...@gmail.com> > To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2012 9:42 PM > Subject: Re: Partitioning and External Drive > > > Chris, > > I've recently posted a message to the list describing my experience of > partitioning an external drive with Voiceover. I will paste the content of > that message below. although I chose to accept the default partition sizes, I > believe that as you go through the steps I describe, rather than having to > drag the splitter to decide on the size of your partitions yo you can simply > type in the number of GBs you want for each, just the number should do. > > " > I thought I'd post my experience of partitioning an external usb drive > under mac os Lion in case somebody else needed to do this in the > future. > > I've bought a 1 TB external hard drive, and I wanted to partition it > so that it has two different volumes. This is how I accomplished it in > Mac OS Lion. > > I connected my USB drive to my mac. > 1. Open Disk Utility (from the finder, shortcut key, command+shift+u), > and then start typing disk utility to get there. > > 2. In the table of all available disks, find the disk you wish to partition. > > 3. Stop interacting with the table of your disks and move to the right > through the available tabs until you've reached "partition" tab. Press > vo+space to select it. > > 4. Move right to hear "partition layout" popup button. Here yo you can > choose how many partitions you wish to have on your drive. In my case, > I chose two partitions. > > 5. Move to the right. You will encounter a field that Voiceover > reports as something like "name text field". At this stage this field > will be reported as dimmed which means that you cannot do anything > with it. > > 6. Move to the right and yo you will hear "scroll area". This is where > it gets interesting. Remember, I chose to partition my external drive > into two. > > 7. Interact with the scroll area. You will be able to navigate with > vo+arrow keys here, and you will hear: "untitled1 plus some info about > the value of the default size of the partition" and if you move right, > you will hear "horizontal splitter" and then, "untitled2" with the > value of the default size of the partition. At this point, you can't > do anything with these areas. However, in order to be able to name > your partitions, you have to do the following steps. > > 8. While still interacting with the scroll area, place your Voiceover > cursor on the first untitled area. If you have a mac that has a > trackpad which by default is enabled with Voiceover, first disabled > the trackpad commander with vo + rotor left. Voiceover will say > trackpad commander off. Then bring your ouse cursor to the Voiceover > cursor with vo+command+f5. Confirm with vo+f5 that you are on the > untitled1 field and then physically click the mouse/trackpad. > > 9. At this point, Disk Utility got busy for me and I had to force quit > it. To avoid this, after you had physically clicked the mouse pad, > turn Voiceover off and then on again (don't rush the process), and > then stop interacting with the scroll area and move left to the "name > text field". > > 10. You will notice, that now Voiceover announces "name text field" as > untitled1 and it is not dimmed so that yo you can enter the name of > your volume here. > > 11. After you are done with this partition, interact with the scroll > area again, only this time move to the "untitled2" and perform the > same actions here as you had done with "untitled1'. Then again, as > soon as you physically click the trackpad, turn Voiceover off, and > then turn it on again, and then stop interacting with the scroll area > and move to the left to the "name" field where you can now enter the > name of your second partition." > > Hope this will help. > > Andrew > On 1 Aug 2012, at 19:18, Christopher Edwards wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I want to partition an external drive but I want one partition to be >> considerably smaller than the other. From reading the Disk Utilities help >> and some other sources it seems you are supposed to adjust a slider to set >> the sizes. Is this accessible by Voiceover and does it tell you the sizes? >> >> I also see that you can enter a number for the size but what are the units >> you use for specifying the size? >> >> Many thanks, >> >> Chris >> >> >> __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature >> database 7347 (20120801) __________ >> >> The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. >> >> http://www.eset.com >> >> >> >> -- >> 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. > > > __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature > database 7347 (20120801) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. > > http://www.eset.com > > > > > __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature > database 7347 (20120801) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. > > http://www.eset.com > > > > -- > 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. 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