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and rise to the top Why can't I resize my existing partition? up vote 5 down vote favorite 6 I just finished downloading my copy of Lion and wanted to install it on a new second partition. I freed up just over 50 GBs from my hard drive and am now stuck trying to shrink my existing partition. I'm using the Disk Utility, but am continually getting: Partition failed Partition filevault the partition cannot be resized failed with the error: The partition cannot be resized. Try reducing the amount of change in the size of the partition. I've tried just resizing by 1 gigabyte and it still fails. Any free tools to fix this? Thanks. partition display storage share|improve this question edited Aug 2 '11 at 17:57 hairboat♦ 1,272103663 asked Mar 1 '11 at 4:34 Kevin Sylvestre 5643919 add a comment| 5 Answers 5 active oldest votes up vote 2 down vote accepted The GUI for Disk Utility has always had problems with resizing volumes. You could try diskutil from the command line, if you trust your skills enough. I'd start the Terminal and write diskutil list to see all devices connected. To resize a volume from the list you'd write something like this (Let's assume that disk2s2 is 100GB): diskutil resizeVolume disk2s2 50g HFS+ Lion 0b This should create a secod partition with 50gb size, HFS+ format(mac format) and the name Lion share|improve this answer answered Mar 1 '11 at 5:06 deiga 1,1431720 add a comment| up vote 3 down vote You've probably got fragmentation of your free space. For some reason, Disk Utility can't figure this out on its own; it just fails. I found a stunningly simple way to resolve th

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2012 November 2011 July 2011 April 2011 January 2011 March 2010 February 2010 August 2009 February 2009 January 2009 December 2008 October 2008 September 2008 May 2008 March 2008 February https://porkrind.org/missives/what-i-had-to-do-to-get-snow-leopard-to-install-on-my-macbook/ 2008 January 2008 September 2007 June 2007 February 2007 November 2006 October 2006 http://www.kyleinselman.com/blog/final-cut-pro-7-snow-leopard-and-mavericks-adventures-partitioning-have-it-all August 2006 June 2006 February 2006 November 2005 March 2004 Meta Log in Entries RSS Comments RSS WordPress.org What I had to do to get Snow Leopard to install on my MacBook I was getting this message: Mac OS X cannot be installed on "silver", because this disk cannot be used to partition cannot start up your computer. The problem turns out to be that the Mac OS really wants 128MB of unused space after your main Mac OS partition. If your partitions are back to back then you will get this message. The fix seemed like it would be easy. But unfortunately it was not. When I tried using Disk Utility to tweak my partition around it would partition cannot be immediately get the error "MediaKit reports no such partition". Great. So I booted into the Snow Leopard CD, launched terminal and ran the following command: $ diskutil list This let me figure out what my disk partition number and what the new size should be. Here is my output: /dev/disk0 #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: GUID_partition_scheme *500.1 GB disk0 1: EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1 2: Apple_HFS silver 452.8 GB disk0s2 3: Microsoft Basic Data 21.7 GB disk0s3 4: Microsoft Basic Data NO NAME 21.5 GB disk0s4 5: Linux Swap 3.8 GB disk0s5 So my OS X disk is "silver". I took 452.8 and subtracted 128MB which is basically .1 and then subtracted another .1 for good measure. Then I ran the disk resizing command like this: $ diskutil resizevolume /dev/disk0s2 452.6GB This went through and did an fsck (verified the disk format) and spit cool little text progress bars at me (I've never seen a barbershop pole in text before, thanks Apple). When it was finished checking the disk it went ahead and shrunk my partition. Yay for command line tools that actually work! After resizing my partition the Snow Leopard

my iMac in order to keep Final Cut Pro 7 available. Because it took a couple months of looking into the best way to go about getting Mavericks onto the iMac without losing my Snow Leopard environment, I've detailed here both the options I considered and the process I finally took when I did make the upgrade. Considering the Options My 24" early-2009 iMac was still running Snow Leopard 10.6.8 a couple years after I would have usually upgraded because I have several FCP7 projects that I would still like to be able to open and edit. Since eligible, I wanted to finally upgrade the iMac to Mavericks to sync it better with my other Apple products, so I set out to find the best option to keep 10.6.8 around so that I can run Final Cut Studio and open my FCP7 projects. Since I hadn't done any sort of partitioning or virtualization before, I wasn't sure what the best route would be, but I considered these four options: Option 1: Buy an old Mac Mini and install 10.6.8 on it. [Most expensive.] Option 2: Partition my iMac into two 500GB partitions and keep 10.6.8 on one and install Mavericks on the other for dual booting. [Free.] (Relevant thread on the Apple Support Community.) Option 3: Install 10.6.8 onto an external drive to boot from. I was concerned that this could be unstable. [Cost of the hard drive.] (Relevant thread on the Apple Support Community.) Option 4: Upgrade to Mavericks, then install Parallels 9 and Snow Leopard Server for access to FCP7. [$40 for Parallels 9 academic price, $20 for SL Server] (Relevant thread on the Apple Support Community.) Partitioning & Upgrading As you can guess, I went with Option 2 from my above list. I figured that free was the best price to start with, and then I would try Option 4 if I needed to, because I've heard that Snow Leopard Server might not be available for much longer (currently, it has to be ordered over the phone directly from Apple). The whole process for me to backup my iMac, partition the drive, restore my data, and upgrade to Mavericks took close to three days, but a huge chunk of that was from trial-and-error and moving close to 700GB of data back and forth between drives. Here's the process I took: Because my 1TB hard drive already had about 700GB of data, and I wanted to create two 500GB partitions, I started out by running a Time Machine backup, then also manually migrating all of my photos and music to an external