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dungeon92
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I recently removed my Linux partitions and was wanting to resize the HFS+ to the fill the unpartitioned space but have not been able to, any methods to do it?
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I suppose if you used BootCamp Assistant to create the partition, it would remove it for you pretty painlessly. If not, use Carbon Copy Cloner, or the like, to create a backup of your OSX partition to another drive. Reformat your drive and use CCC to move all data back. Kind of a hassle but I don't have a better solution.
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Use iPartition. Copy the app to an usb drive, start the computer from the OS X install DVD with the usb plugged in, when in OS X setup use tools -> terminal to mount the usb drive and then start the iPartition app by cding to the mounted usb drive and typing "ipartition", resize, wait some hour or so, reboot, done.
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| Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2011 9:22 pm Post subject: |
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| ez061111 wrote: | | I suppose if you used BootCamp Assistant to create the partition, it would remove it for you pretty painlessly. If not, use Carbon Copy Cloner, or the like, to create a backup of your OSX partition to another drive. Reformat your drive and use CCC to move all data back. Kind of a hassle but I don't have a better solution. |
I have a time machine set up as well, could just do a back up and then install from it for an install.
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saul
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| Can't you just use Disk Utility? Delete the Linux partition then just drag the existing one to the new size. May need to boot from DVD. |
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Bandit Bill
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There is no way to repartition the drive without loosing the data on the drive, other than using a software utility like hwojtek recommended. I'm not aware of any software that is free.
So yes, back up the HFS+ partition. Run Disk Utility (from the system disk) and repartition the drive. Reformat the drive to your desired format. Restore your content from the backup. |
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| saul wrote: | | Can't you just use Disk Utility? Delete the Linux partition then just drag the existing one to the new size. May need to boot from DVD. |
Tried that, verification keeps failing.
I ended up fixing it, booted form the DVD, did a repair disk to fix the issues with verification, then did the drag down resize and it worked, booted and now works fine.
| Bandit Bill wrote: | There is no way to repartition the drive without loosing the data on the drive, other than using a software utility like hwojtek recommended. I'm not aware of any software that is free.
So yes, back up the HFS+ partition. Run Disk Utility (from the system disk) and repartition the drive. Reformat the drive to your desired format. Restore your content from the backup. |
I wasn't looking to do a repartition, I was wanting to resize the HFS+ partition to fill the disk since I had unallocated space from deleting the Linux partitions.
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Bandit Bill
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| dungeon92 wrote: | | I wasn't looking to do a repartition, I was wanting to resize the HFS+ partition to fill the disk since I had unallocated space from deleting the Linux partitions. |
You still need to "repartition" the drive. You would be partitioning it as 1 partition and in the process you will loose everything on the drive.
unless: see above |
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| Bandit Bill wrote: | | dungeon92 wrote: | | I wasn't looking to do a repartition, I was wanting to resize the HFS+ partition to fill the disk since I had unallocated space from deleting the Linux partitions. |
You still need to "repartition" the drive. You would be partitioning it as 1 partition and in the process you will loose everything on the drive.
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You can delete the partitions then grow the existing partition easily in GParted for most mainstream formats with HFS being one of the problem formats (no ability to grow the partition). I was never needing to wipe out the dirve, a true reaprtition is a different thing than what I was doing, I just had to delete two partitions and resize the existing OS X parition, no memory wipe occurred with the OS X partition.
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Bandit Bill
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Dungeon,
It's all good. All I was trying to say is you needed 3rd party software to do what you wanted to do.
Happy Partitioning!!! |
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| Bandit Bill wrote: | Dungeon,
It's all good. All I was trying to say is you needed 3rd party software to do what you wanted to do.
Happy Partitioning!!! |
Booting from the install DVD lets it manage the HFS+ since it's about the only free method to manage an HFS+ partition with full support.
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Bandit Bill
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| dungeon92 wrote: | | Booting from the install DVD lets it manage the HFS+ since it's about the only free method to manage an HFS+ partition with full support. |
Where did you get this info? Did you actually do it yet? Do you have a link to a tutorial? |
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Bandit Bill
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saul I'm still confused.
from the links you provided
What kinds of partitions can be resized in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard?
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard can resize any disk partition except a Master Boot Record Partition. You can use Disk Utility to see if a partition is a Master Boot Record Partition, and also to resize eligible partitions.
Important: Resizing a Master Boot Record partition will erase all data on it, so be sure to back up important files on affected partitions first.
What is a Master Boot Record?
A Master Boot Record, or MBR, is the first sector of a partitioned disk volume. It contains information about how how your disk is partitioned. See this article for some advanced details. |
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saul
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| I think that they confused things. MBR is a disk format needed to boot on a Windows machine. That can not be modified. Normal GUID is what MAC use and can be modified. From what I just tried a normal Mac partitions can be resized but a FAT can not. |
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