I'm in Disk Utility and I can see that the Leopard partition takes up about half of the total disk space. There is nothing else on the disk, the partition just isn't that big. I wanted to expand the partition to fill up the whole disk but I get an error that the partition map is too small or something. How do I fix this without reinstalling Leopard? Do I need to repair my partition map?
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Can't resize my Leopard partition
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You're going to need to reinstall OS X or restore from Time Machine. Picking a smaller partition works as well. There just isn't a large enough contiguous block of space available to split off.
Was there anything in the unallocated space before? Like you made a partition and then deleted it? An erase/reformat and restore from a time machine backup might be your only solution if you can't get the partition to expand to the rest of the disk.
And you should also have a time machine backup anyways before messing with the partition map or doing anything to your disk. There is always a chance of data loss because of a disk error.
And you should also have a time machine backup anyways before messing with the partition map or doing anything to your disk. There is always a chance of data loss because of a disk error.
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Agreed
At this point I would suggest you back up your data, erase your disk and start fresh
If you don't have a backup strategy, this is a good reason to start one
Woof, Woof - Dawg
Agreed
At this point I would suggest you back up your data, erase your disk and start fresh
If you don't have a backup strategy, this is a good reason to start one
Woof, Woof - Dawg
Ok ok, time to go into a little more detail. I'm using leopard through vmware and I was hoping it wasn't a vmware issue because I doubt anyone will be able to help. I made my original disk only 16GB in size. Then expanded it to 32GB but the leopard partition was still 16GB in size so I have no idea what the extra 16GB looks like. I also have no time machine backups or anything so I will actually have to try and re-set up the VM which was a huge pain. I think I'm going to just end up making a clone of it and just put different stuff on the clone.