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I have a large 8 TB external hooked up to my Mini.
When I initially formatted it, I made a few 1 and 2 TB partitions to use as backups.
Three of these partitions have a fair amount of data on them; there are still a few of these 1 TB partitions that have no data, just the formatting.
If possible, I would now like to split one of these "empty" 1 TB partitions into two 500 GB partitions.
I keep reading that this is possible without affecting the other partitions - especially the ones with data, but when I go to Disk Utility there doesn't seem to be an option to create two 500 GB partitions from one 1 TB partition.
So...can that actually be done?
Can I do it with Disk Utility?
And where do I start? When I select the partition I want to split into two, the partition icon is greyed out.
When I initially formatted it, I made a few 1 and 2 TB partitions to use as backups.
Three of these partitions have a fair amount of data on them; there are still a few of these 1 TB partitions that have no data, just the formatting.
If possible, I would now like to split one of these "empty" 1 TB partitions into two 500 GB partitions.
I keep reading that this is possible without affecting the other partitions - especially the ones with data, but when I go to Disk Utility there doesn't seem to be an option to create two 500 GB partitions from one 1 TB partition.
So...can that actually be done?
Can I do it with Disk Utility?
And where do I start? When I select the partition I want to split into two, the partition icon is greyed out.