Help with iPartition

[murphychris]

It does on the 1TB drive and the 128 SSD but for now not on the 3 TB+SSD, but there are signs this will be possible in 10.8.3.
And as I said before, iPartition very likely does not have this built in, so it is worthless.

If Boot Camp Assistant can do it, the tools are present on the system. But man diskutil shows a very limited set of core storage commands that does not include moving extents from one PV to another, so that that desired PV can be shrunk.

I find the screen shot hideously confusing. joeholl1979 can you run the following read only commands and post the result to the forum? Please keep the pasted text highlighted,then click the # button in the toolbar. That will wrap it with code tags so it formats correctly.

diskutil list
diskutil cs list

 

[murphychris]

I think that maybe the Winclone method is probably the best way to do it until these apps start supporting the Fusion drive.

I don't understand what you mean by the Winclone method. They have a work around for the 3TB limitation but in your case it's not applicable. With the available documentation and tools, you'd need to break the fusion drive to release the physical volume (the partition) you need to shrink, and then resize the NTFS volume. Then you could restore the fusion drive.

Based on what I'm seeing so far Apple really needs to get on the stick with a better logical volume manager GUI app than Disk Utility.

 

[monkeybagel]

This is the second app that I bought for this issue, the first one being Camptune X. That didn't work with Fusion drive either.

I think that maybe the Winclone method is probably the best way to do it until these apps start supporting the Fusion drive.

Be sure to contact the developer of iDefrag. They are very helpful and are very delightful to assist in solving issues that can be solved. I have had excellent service with them.

 

[joeholl1979]

Be sure to contact the developer of iDefrag. They are very helpful and are very delightful to assist in solving issues that can be solved. I have had excellent service with them.

iPartition confirmed that it does not work with the Fusion drive. It looks like using Winclone is the only way to expand the Bootcamp partition if you have a Fusion drive.

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I don't understand what you mean by the Winclone method.

What I mean is that I'll have to use Winclone to create an image of my Bootcamp partition, then delete the Bootcamp partition. Then, I'll have to create a bigger size Bootcamp partition and restore the Windows image that I made with Winclone.

Refer to this article: http://twocanoes.com/support/winclone/resizing-a-bootcamp-partition-with-winclone

 

[murphychris]

What I mean is that I'll have to use Winclone to create an image of my Bootcamp partition, then delete the Bootcamp partition. Then, I'll have to create a bigger size Bootcamp partition and restore the Windows image that I made with Winclone.

OK, I follow this except for the part about how you're going to make the Boot Camp partition bigger, exactly. Because with a "fusion" drive, all the space not used for Boot Camp is used for the "fusion" logical volume. Somehow you have to make that logical volume smaller. And I'm not seeing tools to do that. Maybe Disk Utility can shrink it, but I can't tell you if it's going to release space on the SSD, or on the HDD, or if you can choose. The Disk Utility UI is limited. And I've just installed 10.8.3 and the man page for diskutil doesn't contain anymore core storage related commands than 10.8.2.

 

[murphychris]

Then, I'll have to create a bigger size Bootcamp partition and restore the Windows image that I made with Winclone.

I see no evidence in the release notes that 10.8.3 Boot Camp supports Fusion drives. But if it does, I'd expect if it does, that after you clone your Windows/Boot Camp volume, you can use Boot Camp Assistant to remove the Boot Camp partition. And then make a new one of a different size. And then clone/restore.