[Wheeljack]

I've a 500GB external hdd with two partitions. The first one is 300GB which I use to store my media and the other one is 160GB, which is used for Time Machine.

I realized that I was wasting a lot of space with TM, as I had about 60GB of free space and over a month of backups.

So I decided to resize the partitions and give the first one 50GB from the space dedicated to TM.

I wasn't able to resize on the fly, Disk Utility wouldn't let me. I guessed that I had to shrink the TM partition first, and then expand the 300GB partition to use the unallocated 50GB.

During the re-partition process I got a Kernel Panic, and had to restart. I did not lose any data, but those 50GB of free space are gone. Disk Utility and Time Machine now report that I had only about 4GB left on the Time Machine volume, but the total size is still 160GB instead of 110GB as i intended it.

So, those 50GB are gone. Is there a way I can get them back? I'm backing up all my data now, just in case I have to reformat the entire drive.

Any ideas?

[lifeisabeach]

Try using iPartition.