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Disk Utility partitioning and resizing doesn't work
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<blockquote data-quote="xdunlapx" data-source="post: 1526010" data-attributes="member: 261057"><p>Would partitioning it first as free space, then changing it to Mac OS X Journaled (extended) work? I will try that. I just verified disk permissions, fixed permissions (one library file had incorrect permissions), then verified disk, that was fine. Now I am erasing free space. Not sure if all that will help but it's doing it right now. *sigh* I may have to buy or find a good free partitoner for Mac. This is my first time trying to put linux on a mac as this is my first mac (got it I think in August last year). I like to keep up on linux distros, mainly Linux Mint as I love that distro and used it a lot between roughly 2006-2012. I'll keep looking for info since it apparently is not as simple as that geek.com link makes you think. I have plenty of experience partitioning PC hdd's but joining the Mac world I guess changes things up some. Disk Utility says about 7 minutes remain for erasing the free space... I do have all apps closed other than firefox.</p><p></p><p>ETA: Um ok so now my startup disk is almost full. I just got a warning from Disk Utility as it is "creating a second temporary file" nearing completion of the erasing of the free space. I've never done this before so I don't know if this is normal... It still reads that there is 111GB available on the disk just below the status bar of the file operation... Is that normal?</p><p></p><p>ETA2: Ok well the operation completed and now my available space is 178.15GB. Ok well that's good. I'll re-do the partitioning again, this time using free space as the format. *sigh*</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="xdunlapx, post: 1526010, member: 261057"] Would partitioning it first as free space, then changing it to Mac OS X Journaled (extended) work? I will try that. I just verified disk permissions, fixed permissions (one library file had incorrect permissions), then verified disk, that was fine. Now I am erasing free space. Not sure if all that will help but it's doing it right now. *sigh* I may have to buy or find a good free partitoner for Mac. This is my first time trying to put linux on a mac as this is my first mac (got it I think in August last year). I like to keep up on linux distros, mainly Linux Mint as I love that distro and used it a lot between roughly 2006-2012. I'll keep looking for info since it apparently is not as simple as that geek.com link makes you think. I have plenty of experience partitioning PC hdd's but joining the Mac world I guess changes things up some. Disk Utility says about 7 minutes remain for erasing the free space... I do have all apps closed other than firefox. ETA: Um ok so now my startup disk is almost full. I just got a warning from Disk Utility as it is "creating a second temporary file" nearing completion of the erasing of the free space. I've never done this before so I don't know if this is normal... It still reads that there is 111GB available on the disk just below the status bar of the file operation... Is that normal? ETA2: Ok well the operation completed and now my available space is 178.15GB. Ok well that's good. I'll re-do the partitioning again, this time using free space as the format. *sigh* [/QUOTE]
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