Resize Partitions in Mac OS X with Disk Utility
10.5, 10.6, Mac OS X, Tips & Tricks, Utilities - November 20th, 2009 - 1 Comment
You can easily resize any disk partition in Mac OS X using the included Disk Utility app, located in /Applications/Utilities, you can even resize a mounted volume but that’s not the best idea in the world. Before you go messing around and resizing your partitions, be sure to backup your data in case something goes wrong.
Since Mac OS X Leopard (and obviously Snow Leopard) you can grow or shrink HFS+ (Mac OS X) Partitions on the fly, with the resizing done live regardless of whether the drive is internal or an external drive.
[ tip idea and animated gif from CreativeTechs ]
I see that the article is almost a year old, but I have a question about this and hope you can still answer this.
My Mac HD is also formatted as Mac OS Extended (journaled), but won’t allow me to resize (enlarge) this partition. I haven’t got a ‘drag’ corner.
It says something about being my startup disc, which isn’t being mentioned in the article.
Is this what causes the problem?