HD partition too small
When we configured our PowerMac G5, which has two internal drives with 160 GB each, we dedicated 50GB to the HD partition one drive 1, and left the rest of drive 1 to hold video footage. (We partioned drive 2 into two equal parts.)
We didn't plan on upgrading to Final Cut Pro 5 studio, which requires approx. 30 GB. We only have 9 GB left on the HD partition. We cannot install FCP Studio on the second partition -- it needs to be installed wherever the system folder (and applications folder) is located.
What is the best procedure to move all relevant data, so we can erase and repartition drive 1 and increase the size of the HD volume?
Many thanks in advance for any tips.
-anna
Thank you!
So, I think the steps would be:
(1) download CCC [http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html
(2) Run CCC and clone the entire HD to an extrenal FW drive. Make this the start-up disk
(3) Restart using the System on the external drive -- I guess this would also give me the peace of mind that the clone is in perfect working condition
(4) Run disk Utility and repartition the HD
(5) Run CCC again and clone the HD contents on the extrenal FW drive back to HD. Make this the start-up disk.
(6) Erase the extrenal FW drive
Is this what you would do? Please correct and/or add anything I got wrong or missed.
Many thanks!
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*http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=760190*
+*quote from SWedd*+
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diskutil
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[SOLVED]root file system partition too small
O.K. so I have this stupid problem:
[rsw@myhost ~]$ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 2542076 2320972 92988 97% /
none 94784 0 94784 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda4 12041420 2406244 9028324 22% /home
/dev/sda1 38888 8336 28544 23% /boot
When I set up my partitions I expected 2.5 gigs to stretch a little farther than this. is there any way to resize it without formating the drive and starting over?
Last edited by rsw (2008-10-16 00:52:02)rsw wrote:
O.K. so I have this stupid problem:
[rsw@myhost ~]$ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 2542076 2320972 92988 97% /
none 94784 0 94784 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda4 12041420 2406244 9028324 22% /home
/dev/sda1 38888 8336 28544 23% /boot
When I set up my partitions I expected 2.5 gigs to stretch a little farther than this. is there any way to resize it without formating the drive and starting over?
Yep, your home partition is directly after the root partition, so what I suggested should work, however, give good consideration to the size of each, considering you don't have another drive (according to df) to use for storage. Personally, I only have 12GB on my home partition (after resizing) and now have 23GB on root.
Here's mine.
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb3 22864180 7438764 14503608 34% /
none 517648 548 517100 1% /dev/shm
/dev/sdb4 11897496 5947088 5470708 53% /home
/dev/sdb1 38888 22534 14346 62% /boot
/dev/sda1 155059036 37878624 109365872 26% /media/thevault
/dev/sdc1 116294120 84739460 25693748 77% /media/music
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Before I moved over to Mac, I spent 9 years learning how to maintain my own pc, so I've got some idea of what I'm doing. But there are always things to learn, and I'm grateful to those who are willing to share their knowledge - I've used what I've learned to help those of my friends who are real novices, and at times I've even contributed to forums.
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Greetings,
I am aware that this problem has been discussed, but in long and vague discussions that I had to sift deeply to find an answer. Therefore I am posting a clear message, as this problem can be very troublesome for someone who just received a Mac OS installation disk and cannot install it.
Situation : you cannot install/update your new system because the installer does not consider your volume.
Error message : this disk cannot be used to start up your computer.
Version française : Ce disque ne peut pas être configuré pour démarrer votre ordinateur.
Also discussed below error: "MediaKit reports partition (Map) too small"
Note : although this occurred with a Snow Leopard (10.6) install DVD, it can alo occur with Lion (10.7) according to discussions on Apple web site.
IF YOUR CONDITIONS ARE AS FOLLOWS :
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- Your main Mac partition scheme is in GUID as it should be (check with Disk Utility). That partition contains a Mac system that can start-up.
- Your volume format is: Mac OS Extended (journaled) [the format should not be Case Sensitive.]
- You have the hardware requirements to install Mac OS 10.6 (Intel processor; internal or external DVD drive or a linked DVD drive; 1 GB of RAM; a screen controlled by your computer graphics card; at least 5 GB space on the hard disk or 7 GB if you install all components).
- Using Disk Utility, you of course tried the disk Repair Tool and the Repair Permissions tool.
- Your hard disk does not have a file called Backups.backupdb (if it does, this means Time Machine has once used this hard disk for its back-ups). Anyhow, if it were the case, the installation would give a different error message (with the word TimeMachine). This file may block the installation: Apple Support suggest to place it in the garbage, *without* deleting it, and placing it back on the disk later. Mind you, if you do not use this hard disk as such to save your Time Machine back-ups, you can simply delete this file.
HOW TO FIX :
1. Boot with the 10.6 install DVD (Tip: you can either select Mac 10.6 as the boot DVD in your Start-up Preferences or simply press down c during the start-up).
2. Above the install screen, you have a Utilities tab from where you can run Disk Utility. Select your hard disk and select the Partition tab. Resize the primary Mac partition (don't add a new one) by decreasing it by about 5 GB.
It will look like this http://i.imgur.com/jHTbr.jpg
( That image shows only one partition, but the same principle applies even if you have two or more partitions on your disk.)
Also see the official Apple how to: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3926
Version française: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3926?viewlocale=fr_FR
3. Commit the change by hitting "Apply"
3.b. If you get the error "MediaKit reports partition (Map) too small", this is a rare error where the partition that follows (for example Bootcamp) is slightly overlapping your main Mac partition. You will need to reduce that other following partition. Once you have reduced the other partition, you will probably need to return to step 2 and 3 and try again.
[ For example, in my case, I had resized my Bootcamp with CampTune software and it would seem that the file system ended-up somehow larger than the actual partition container. I simply asked CampTune to reduce the partition a bit (barely 2 GB) and that fixed it.]
4. Reboot, again into the 10.6 install DVD.
5. You can then install 10.6.
6. Once 10.6 is installed, use the Disk Utility on the desktop (you can boot into the primary HD at this point) to resize the primary partition back to its original or maximum size.
SOURCE (main fix): http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=774410 [and] http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3926
SOURCE (explaination for MediaKit error): some Apple discussion post.
nb: in my case, it was on a MacBook Pro (late 2008).GasMan4932 wrote:
When I click on the icon for this drive, the warning message below states "Mac OS X cannot be installed on 'iMac HD', because this disk cannot be used to start up your computer." Obviously that's not true, since that's where the OS is installed.
How did you partition this drive, if you did that? Does it contain start up or utility partitions for any other OS (for instance Linux)? There have been reports that the "cannot be used to start up your computer" message will appear if a third party utility was used to create a 'triple boot' system or such, apparently because SL is picky about the format GUID partition scheme table info & how partitions are allocated space on the drive by other formatting/partition methods.
For some users with these partitions, the fix has been as simple as "tickling" (slightly changing) the partition size of some partition with Disk Utility, which apparently updates the GUID partition scheme table info so that the SL installer accepts it as safe to use with SL.( In this sense, the message may be trying to say the installer thinks the disk can't be used to reliably start up your computer with SL, not in general.)
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On my 3.1Ghz iMac running OSX 10.8.5 I'm trying to Partition my Hard drive so I can setup a second boot.
Currently my Macintosh HD has 404.07GB USED and 707.75 AVAILABLE.
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So I have a Mac Pro with a 3TB inside, but Snow Leopard won't recognize the whole 3TB. I can format it, but it only allows 801.23 GB. The remaining space is left as Free Space. When I try to resize the Volume, I get this:
I get this error: " Partition failed with an error." MediaKit reports partition (map) too small.
Can someone help me find a way to utilize the 3TB as it was intended to?
My setup:
MacPro1,1
10.6.8
ST3000DM001-1CH166:
Capacity: 3 TB (3,000,592,982,016 bytes)
Model: ST3000DM001-1CH166
Removable Media: No
Detachable Drive: No
BSD Name: disk0
Rotational Rate: 7200
Medium Type: Rotational
Bay Name: Bay 1
Partition Map Type: GPT (GUID Partition Table)
S.M.A.R.T. status: Verified
Volumes:
Capacity: 209.7 MB (209,715,200 bytes)
Writable: Yes
BSD Name: disk0s1
BK:
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Available: 737.7 GB (737,702,121,472 bytes)
Writable: Yes
File System: Journaled HFS+
BSD Name: disk0s2
Mount Point: /Anyways, i've made it work. My process was this:
Problem:
1. I put MacPro into Target Disk Mode to mount to my 2011 MacBook Pro. Disk Utility on MBP would only see 800GB.
Solution:
2. Booted the SL CD on the MacPro and ran Disk Utility from there. In the partitions tab, I chose 1 partition, and hit apply.
3. "could not unmount disk."
4. So I tried to partition it again, and it worked this time. 3TB Available.
5. I then booted the MacPro using an external HD with OSX on it to run CarbonCopyCloner to reimage my backup.
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Mediakit reports that the partition is too small
Hi everyone,
I have a NAS (QNAP TS-239ProII+) connected to my network. I have created a iscsi target and a LUN attached to that target (let's say 1GB - it's a test).
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Hello
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