

- #MAC OS DISK UTILITY RE PARTITION HARD DRIVE HOW TO#
- #MAC OS DISK UTILITY RE PARTITION HARD DRIVE MAC OS X#
ResizeVolume is only supported on GPT media with a Journaled HFS+ filesystem.Ī size of "limits" will print the range of valid values for the current filesystem.Įxample: diskutil resizeVolume disk1s3 10G Valid sizes are B(ytes), K(ilobytes), M(egabytes), G(igabytes), T(erabytes)Įxample: 10G (10 gigabytes), 4.23T (4.23 terabytes), 5M (5 megabytes) Valid partition sizes are in the format of. Ownership of the affected disk is required. When decreasing size, you may optionally supply a list of new partitions to create. If you check the man pages, you will see that there is no information on this matter, but you can obtain some executing "diskutil resizeVolume":
#MAC OS DISK UTILITY RE PARTITION HARD DRIVE HOW TO#
So, I finally read an article on how to do this using the command line command diskutil, and its hidden feature named resizeVolume. But I had already installed Windows (basically for gaming) and did not want to lose that partition. Some people had suggested to use the Bootcamp utility to resize and partition the drive. & amp amp amp amp lt br& amp amp gt
#MAC OS DISK UTILITY RE PARTITION HARD DRIVE MAC OS X#
I have been looking for this for quite a while, as I wanted to install the Mac OS X Leopard preview in order to test the new development tools and maybe try a new feature or two for Xslimmer.

Recently I discovered a lossless way to repartition my Mac's main hard drive, without having to boot from an external drive.
