Adding partition to free space on external that contains RAID 0 array
Hello.
I have a Lacie 2BIG 6TB Thunderbolt drive. This was partitioned into a 5TB RAID-0 array, with some smaller partitions in the rest of the available space for other media and backups.
I tried to delete the other partitions to consolidate whatever space was used by these for other media. Disk Utility let me remove these partitions, but when I try to recreate anything in the free space now available, Disk Utility states that it will also erase the partition that is used as a slice of the RAID array.
I do not have the space to move everything off the array to completely re-partition the disk, and am looking for a solution to re-partition only this free space on the pair of physical drives.
Can anyone offer any advice on how I might accomplish this? I have tried to attach images of what Disk Utility shows when I attempt what what I want to do.
I have tried iPartition, and would like to try Drive Genius, but I'm not sure that this will help the situation.
Thanks a lot.
Just a quick confirmation that I have still been unable to resolve this after a few more attempts.
Anyone out there know more about this than I do?
Thanks.
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importing photos into iphoto, shows "Photo cannot import your photos because there is not enough free space on the volume containing your iPhoto library."
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currently only has 2,500 photos in iPhoto
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1 - delete the iPhoto preference file, com.apple.iPhoto.plist, that resides in your
User/Home/Library/ Preferences folder.
2 - delete iPhoto's cache file, Cache.db, that is located in your
User/Home/Library/Caches/com.apple.iPhoto folder (Snow Leopard and Earlier).
or with Mt. Lion from the User/Library/Containers/com.apple.iPhoto/
Data/Library/Caches/com.apple.iPhoto folder
3 - launch iPhoto and try again.
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How much free space do you have on your hard drive? Try the following:
1 - delete the iPhoto preference file, com.apple.iPhoto.plist, that resides in your
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Adding a new partition in free space wipes all others?
geez, I hate writing a question when I think I've already found the answer!!
But in this case, the answer's so baad, I thought I'd run it by you all before I hit "desperation" mode! Here goes...
I've got a USB 1TB external that I back up on to. It's in 4 partitions (audio, video, system, archives). The 4 partions are using about 750 Gb total, with 250 Gb free. I wanted to resize the "system" partition, as it was getting pretty full. I found some instructions about; (1.) creating a new, fifth, empty partition out of that 250Gb free space then (2.) "merging" the new partition and the system partition, resulting in a single larger partion for system backups. All other partitions *should* have been left untouched.
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As I see it, a direct conflict to what Apple claims in Disk Utility's Help.
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Files in Trash
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The longer the hard drive remains in use and data are written to it, the greater the risk your deleted files will be overwritten.
Also visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on Data Recovery.
For future reference:
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I just recently purchased a MacBook Air and want to set up Time Machine with my external hard drive. I'm migrating from Windows 7 so before purchasing my new Mac, I transferred about 100 GB of data from my PC to my external hard drive that I wanted to keep. The external hard drive has a partition of 100 GB (91 GB used) and 365 GB of "free space". I would like to know how to format that free space so that I can use it with Time Machine but at the same time not lose any of my data on the first partition. I've looked around in the Disk Utility but it doesn't give any options to format the free space.
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I have a 500GB WD MyBook external FireWire HD. I had it partitioned into two partitions. One was a 112 GB that I used to create backup images of the 120 GB internal drive of my PB G4 (really 111.66 GB). The other I used for other files.
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Does anyone have any ideas about what is going on here, and what I can do to get things working properly?Hello everyone. I have a problem that I'm trying to sort out.
I have a 500GB WD MyBook external FireWire HD. I had it partitioned into two partitions. One was a 112 GB that I used to create backup images of the 120 GB internal drive of my PB G4 (really 111.66 GB). The other I used for other files.
Now, I decided that I wanted to start using the Backup partition for Time Machine, but in order to maintain a longer history, I wanted to increase the partition size. I figured this would be a snap with the new capabilities of Disk Utility. Unfortunately, it was not. While it is true that my pocket FireWire drive behaves exactly how I'd expect it to in DU, the 500 GB WD drive does not. I can't do anything to the partitions, in a live manner (the options, + and - buttons are all grayed out, and there is no indication of volume fill status).
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Hey,
I have a 1T external usb harddrive and formated as NTFS. It has about 250GB free space and I am trying to see if I can utilize that space for timemachine backup?
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/SUse a Windows computer to copy all the files from that external and then format it either Fat32 or exFAT, I suggest FAT32 if you don't have any Files over 4GBs in size. Once that is done you can then Copy/Move those files back to the external and then connect it to your Mac. Mac OS X can read and write to FAT32 and exFAT formatted drives. So you can then use it to store other files on fro your Mac.
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Hey,
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My hard drive currently contains two partitions: 200 GB for the Tiger and 30 GB of free space I left when I wasn't yet sure if I will not want to install Linux on it. Now I am sure I won't and I'd like to merge these 30 GB back onto the first partition. Is this possible?
$ diskutil resizeVolume disk0s2 limits
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Any suggestions would be very appreciated!
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