Extend partition to use all space

[waring192]

Hey,

Think I am making a silly mistake. I would like to extend the Time Machine partition on my Server and extend it by 35 GB which is the slice between the 390 GB Time Machine partition and the 75 GB which is for cashing:

Every time I click on the minus bit on the 35 GB slice the cashing bit enlarges to 110 GB but I would like the Time Machine partition to use that extra bit. How do I do it?!

Cheers

 

[Erdbeertorte]

Hi,

I am no expert but just tried almost everything, also in Terminal after adding three partitions to my Time Machine drive.

It seems you can only merge a partition with the one "in front" of it if you delete the one "behind" it, what is your Time Machine.

But this would only prevent the data from the 35GB partition, what will be 425GB after that and everything from your Time Machine partition would be lost.

You could transfer the Time Machine data to another drive and back after merging.

But maybe someone else knows better than me or the Paragon Hard Disk Manager can help you, there is a free trial version.

As you see there are some empty spaces after the second, third and fourth "real" partition with the same size as the Time Machine Boot partition. Maybe deleting those might help.

But I can't try it at the moment because that version of Paragon is not really compatible with High Sierra and APFS drives in the Mac.
Even Disk Utility is acting up and my internal drive is not visible anymore in that Paragon application, it had been there before shown as unformatted for the APFS part.

You could also post a screenshot of the Terminal after running diskutil list in there.

I think this is something for @Weaselboy He knows better than me about all this stuff.

Sorry for the long the text.

Julie

 

[Weaselboy]

@Erdbeertorte has hit on the issue.

It has to do with the order of the partitions. Click cancel to go back to this view to visualize what is going on. Looking at my external drive, it I want to expand Backup, I would have to remove Other, then expand Backup into the now empty space... then add Other back. Of course this wipes the data on Other, so you need to move it off somewhere.