• Apple OS X

  Partition Question

  Posted by Peter Tours on June 21, 2013 at 12:46 am

  My Mac Pro system drive is dual boot, 10.7 and 10.8. Until earlier today each partition occupied 500gb of a 1tb drive.

  I work in 10.7…the 10.8 is for “future use”.

  Today using Disk Utility, I reduced the size of the 10.8 partition to 250gb, planning to expand the 10.7 partition by the same amount.

  However I find while I can reduce the size of either partition, or re-expand one I reduced, I cannot expand the 10.7 partiion into the space freed up by reducing the 10.8 partition.

  I have tried booting to both OS’s but the same limitations apply.

  I am wondering, if I break out my old 10.6.8 drive and boot from it, and put the current drive in a USB cradle, will I then be able to expand the 10.7 partition since I wont be using it as a boot drive at all?

  Or would something like Drive Genius or iPartition do what I need? How?

  Thanks in advance for any advice!

  Peter Tours
  TnT Video Services, Inc.
  Fort Lauderdale, FL

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  Peter Tours replied 12 years, 11 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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