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<blockquote data-quote="bobtomay" data-source="post: 1199119" data-attributes="member: 24160"><p>Disk Utility is suppose to be able to safely re-size partitions without data loss, but I've never done it.</p><p></p><p>However, all of those other utilities that can do the same which I have used time and again without issue, I've seen them on the rare occasion of 'something' happening to cause data loss.</p><p></p><p>Don't know if DU will only re-size HFS partitions or any format - a google would probably answer that.</p><p></p><p>If your external is formatted as HFS, and you feel the internal is about to die, I'd probably try a Time Machine back up instead of resizing and doing a clone. A TM backup can be written to a drive with other data on it - but it has to be HFS.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bobtomay, post: 1199119, member: 24160"] Disk Utility is suppose to be able to safely re-size partitions without data loss, but I've never done it. However, all of those other utilities that can do the same which I have used time and again without issue, I've seen them on the rare occasion of 'something' happening to cause data loss. Don't know if DU will only re-size HFS partitions or any format - a google would probably answer that. If your external is formatted as HFS, and you feel the internal is about to die, I'd probably try a Time Machine back up instead of resizing and doing a clone. A TM backup can be written to a drive with other data on it - but it has to be HFS. [/QUOTE]
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