HT2055 Disk Utility for OS X 10.9.2

I need a Disk Utility for OS X 10.9.2 to add disk space to a partition and fix permissions.

You will find Disk Utility in your Utilities folder.
Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions - Mavericks, Lion/Mountain Lion
Boot to the Recovery HD:
Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
Repair
When the recovery menu appears select Disk Utility. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list.  In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive.  If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported then click on the Repair Permissions button. When the process is completed, then quit DU and return to the main menu. Select Restart from the Apple menu.

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    Press and hold Command-R keys and reboot. You'll then start up in the Lion Recovery HD. You'll find Disk Utility there.
    Command-R to the rescue.
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    — https://discussions.apple.com/message/11199777#11199777 (2010-03-09)
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    @MrHoffman
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    @Graham Perrin
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    Good Morning everybody
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    The hatter wrote:
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    Aha! I only looked at 'format' list, didn't notice the 'option' list.
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  • Aftermarket Disk Utility for OS 10.4 TIGER

    I am trying to find an aftermarket Disk Utility that will be compatable with TIGER 10.4.8. I have Norton but it does not work with OS 10.4, it did work with 10.2.
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    First, never use Norton Utilities with OS X. It will damage your drive, it's incompatible, and it's no longer made or supported by Symantec.
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    I've not used Drive Genius and cannot comment on that program but I have used Disk Warrior and Tech Tools Pro and Data Rescue. All three have fixed me up but if I had to choose just one of these it would be Tech Tools Pro because DW is a one-trick pony for the price and I think that Tech Tools Pro can now do what Data Rescue can do. I just didn't have it when I used Data Rescue but the app seems to have caught up doing what the other two can do. More for your money!
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    Message was edited by: David Farah

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    I have a MacBook Pro that I've upgraded to Maverick (10.9.5) It came with Snow Leopard; has Intel processor and 4 GB memory. It seems to be running more slowly maybe since I installed Maverick. I'd like to run a disk utility but the one that came with the machine won't work, "You can't use this version of the application"install Mac OS X" with this version of OS X. Your have 'install Mac OS X' 23.1.1"
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    I'm not sure what "install Mac OS X" has to do with Disk Utility.
    Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions - Yosemite, Mavericks, Mountain Lion or Lion
    Boot to the Recovery HD:
    Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
    Repair
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  • DISK UTILITY FOR OSX 10.9.1?

    Disk utility cannot be used with OSX 10.9.1?

    Why not?
    Please explain.
    I have absolutely no problems with Disk Utility. It works just as it always has for me.
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