Accidentally divided my disk partition into two...

[Sehnsucht]

...during a botched Linux install (note extra eye-rolling: ). The partition was 64 GB, but now there are two, one is 45 GB and the other is about 20 GB. No earthly idea how I did that.

Friends, please enlighten me as to how to restore them back to one single 64 GB partition, preferably without having to reformat and reinstall OS X.

Thanks!

 

[r.j.s]

Delete the second one, then expand the OS X partition.

 

[Sehnsucht]

How do I delete a partition? I installed Linux on the other one, now I can just get rid of the other.

 

[Ivan P]

Disk Utility in OS X should list the different partitions and should let you delete them.

 

[Sehnsucht]

That's what I was thinking, but it doesn't:

"Disk 2" is the partition I want to delete, but it doesn't allow me to. If I select it and press the delete key, DU will act as though it's deleting the partition, but it just sits there with "Preparing to delete volume......." and doesn't do anything. It's the same when formatted HFS+ or FAT32.

 

[Ivan P]

What happens if you select where it says 'Disk 2' in the left-hand column instead?

 

[MacManiac76]

I had sorta the same problem when wanting to delete a Linux partition off of my hard drive. I had to go into the partition utility within the install program for the Linux distro (Ubuntu in my case) and delete the partition from there. After that I booted back into OS X and Disk Utility where it showed as unallocated free space and let me resize my OS X partition from there.

 

[Sehnsucht]

Well, I've just decided to go ahead and reformat my drive. Just got done backing everything up...

Thanks anyway guys...