Is Lion capable of re-partitioning drive segments back together without erasing data?

sniffies

macrumors 603

Original poster

• Feb 28, 2011

• #1

That's the only reason I refuse to partition my hard drive at all. Any way to check that?

If it were, then it'd be one hell of a feature! 😱

 

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Galaxas0

macrumors regular

• Mar 3, 2011

• #2

That's not possible due to disk limitations. When conjoining partitions, the disk HAS to be wiped. It's like wiping and creating one new partition. SO - It's not possible... yet.

 

aeaglex07

macrumors 6502

• Mar 4, 2011

• #3

bootcamp?

 

Relznuk

macrumors 6502

• Mar 7, 2011

• #4

Galaxas0 said:

That's not possible due to disk limitations. When conjoining partitions, the disk HAS to be wiped. It's like wiping and creating one new partition. SO - It's not possible... yet.

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But tools such as Drive Genius have been able to move around blank space (and consolidate blank space) and other disk segments for some time now. So why not Disk Utility?

 

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Tharian

macrumors regular

• Mar 7, 2011

• #5

It worked fine for me. I partitioned a space for lion and then used disk utility to erase the partition. Easy as pie…but I dunno if I got lucky or if it's just that easy.

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