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Disk Utility, why can't you do that...
I know this is sort of a change of subject but if boot camp can create and delete a partition seamlessly, why can't DiskUtility? Why must we still reformat our drive just to change the partition scheme if Boot Camp just proved that it can be done?
Disk Utility, why can't you do that...
For that matter, no one mentions above that Boot Camp insists on using the internal drive. Many of us boot our minis externally for speed; we're all waiting for the other shoe to drop on accessing the internal SATA connector, and using the mini as a mere component in a custom system.
Disk Utility, why can't you do that...
Non-destructive resizing can be done using
diskutil from the command line:% diskutil resizeVolume Disk Utility Tool Usage: diskutil resizeVolume [Mount Point|Disk Identifier|Device Node] size ... Non-destructively resize a disk. You may increase or decrease its size. When decreasing size, you may optionally supply a list of new partitions to create. Ownership of the affected disk is required. Valid partition sizes are in the format of . Valid sizes are B(ytes), K(ilobytes), M(egabytes), G(igabytes), T(erabytes) Example: 10G (10 gigabytes), 4.23T (4.23 terabytes), 5M (5 megabytes) resizeVolume is only supported on GPT media with a Journaled HFS+ filesystem. A size of "limits" will print the range of valid values for the current filesystem. Example: diskutil resizeVolume disk1s3 10G JHFS+ HDX1 5G MS-DOS HDX2 5G Valid filesystems: "Case-sensitive HFS+" "Journaled HFS+" "Case-sensitive Journaled HFS+" No Intel Macs here so I haven't tried it. I've recently resized volumes on PPC Macs using iPartition.
Disk Utility, why can't you do that...
See Mac Geekery - Nondestructively Resizing Volumes for more details.
Disk Utility, why can't you do that...
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