A appreciate the help. Between one thing and another, I never had time to try
this, knowing what could go wrong and how long it would take to recover from
any mistake. Now I find myself low on disk space, so I don't think I can
install Yosemite on this machine. Can anyone tell me how, or even if
Remember that any unallocated space after the partition is available for use.
Even if you couldn't shrink from 51G to 45G with the available 10G, which even
by my lamentable arithmetical powers would seem to be possible with 4G left
over, then you should still have sufficient space on the whole
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 wrote:
According to Finder, I have a 60GB hard drive total, and
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 wrote:
> I believe you are waisting time.
> If you only have 10 gigs
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,
The command you now need is:
sudo diskutil resizeVolume disk0s2 45G JHFS+ Testing 0
The only time I consider Disk Utility to be reliable with VoiceOver is when
partitioning from scratch; then it's usually more convenient to use DU instead
of the CLI. But ultimately you can do more with the disk
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, Chery
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
If you use the re-size control all that voice-over will say is content is empty
and you can't do anything.
On 27 Jul 2014, at 7:54 am, Alex Hall wrote:
> Fair enough, I guess I can see that. The question then becomes: how do you
> use the resize control? I interact with it, but can't do anythin
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 th
hey,
I would love it if you could put the steps down for resizing or anything to do
with partitioning in voice-over.
I have done some of it with external drives but internal is no go.
thanks
Michael
On 27 Jul 2014, at 6:23 am, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> I have to comment here that partitioning with
I'm not absolutely sure you can. My first comment wasn't about resizing in
particular but was in response to the statement about partitioning with
voiceover being useless (not exact quote). I do know that one can partition
with disk utility doing vo because I've done that many times. My second c
Fair enough, I guess I can see that. The question then becomes: how do you use
the resize control? I interact with it, but can't do anything past that. Is
there a special command to use this?
On Jul 26, 2014, at 5:33 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> What I think you may not be understanding is that b
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
Apologies, but can you re-send that command? Thanks.
Yes, generally, partitioning is easy. I've done this sort of thing several
times in the past with no trouble, on internal and external drives. I've never
seen an attempt go sideways like this one has, but this is the first time I've
had probl
I tell you something, partitioning is something that is totally
accessible from the word go under OS X. Under Windows you either need
sighted assistance or one of the talking environments out there, unless
you use a third party partitioning program under Windows or you want to
partition on driv
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 5
I have to comment here that partitioning with voiceover is most certainly NOT
useless. I do it all the time with external drives and have done it with my
internal drive on occasion. I don't have time right now to write more, but it
involves how you interact and tab; it might be a bit challenging
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 do
Partitioning with voice-over is useless. i think a lot more could be done to
make the panels more accessible. take the resize control
On 26 Jul 2014, at 10:28 pm, Alex Hall wrote:
> I made sure to select the proper partition from the scroll area, and the size
> did show up. The thing it, any va
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 resizeVo
I haven't made the new partition yet, so here's all I have:
AccessIT-LLC-Macbook-Air:~ alexhall$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAMESIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme*60.7 GBdisk0
1:
Can you send us the output of "diskutil list" so we can see where you are?
I do advise you to take that backup now, just in case.
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The latest: I resized the Macintosh HD partition, as I said before. That went
fine, yet the partition I'm trying to create is *still* stuck at 8.79GB. I type
in the new size (14GB), and it immediately gets replaced by 8.79, just like
before. This makes no sense at all. Would the command line too
Well, when you "Add" a new partition, you are shrinking the partition whose
free space you are using transparently; this is all handled by the disk
management framework in OS X.
To be honest, Disk Utility isn't the nicest tool to use for these sorts of
jobs, so if you're up to it, I'd use the d
Okay, thanks, I think I see what happened. I was trying to do all this after
clicking "add"; I'm instead supposed to shrink my current partition before
configuring the new one. It's shrinking now, so this should work better next
time I add the new one and try to set it up. Hopefully I can figure
You should be able to resize macintosh hd. All I can suggest is to make sure
you deleted the new partition and double check that you have macintosh hd
selected with vo-space.
You have to delete the new one first because you can only move the end point of
a partition using disk utility. You can
Good idea, thanks. I tried resizing the main partition (Macintosh HD), but the
size is always dimmed, as though I can't edit it at all. It's the startup disk
so of course I can't erase it, but I don't seem able to resize it to give the
new partition more space.
On Jul 26, 2014, at 11:10 AM, Barr
If you can't resize it then it is as large as it can be. Removing your vm
freed of 19 gigs on your main partition. That does not meen that you have 19
gigs free on the drive.
You probably need to delete the new partition and then shrink the main
partition.
On Jul 26, 2014, at 7:28 AM, Alex H
I made sure to select the proper partition from the scroll area, and the size
did show up. The thing it, any value I enter in the size text field is replaced
by 8.34 no matter what. VO indicates that, in the scroll area, there is a
"resize control", but I can't figure out how that is supposed to
Sounds like you don't have the partition in question selected.
Interact with the scroll area containing the partitions and vo-space on the one
you want. Then all the things you want should be enabled.
Also note that unless it has been fixed, the installation does something
strange to an existing
Hi all,
I'm trying to test Yosemite, and I've been running it off an old thumb drive.
Needless to say, I've hit serious lag issues that practically prevent me from
using the system. I'd like to partition my (admittedly small) internal disk
instead, so I've moved my Windows VM off for now, leavin
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