How to delete partition?

[bored911]

Hi,

I created a partition for Ubuntu, which i ended up not installing. Anyone know how to delete that parition easily. thanks

 

[GimmeSlack12]

It's easy, re-Partition your hard drive (only way).

 

[bousozoku]

Disk Utility is the hard way. iPartition and a few companies have an easier, non-destructive way to do it.

 

[AlBDamned]

Disk Utility is the hard way. iPartition and a few companies have an easier, non-destructive way to do it.

Are there freeware programs to delete partitions without wiping the drive(s) in question?

I had a 160GB drive installed temporarily on an early firewire bus and it automatically partitioned it to 128GB. So, when I put it in my powerbook there's now a partition of about 20GB which is unusable.

Rather than cloning a spare drive, wiping the new one in the powerbook and then cloning back on to that, I'd prefer just to delete the partition if possible.

 

[bousozoku]

Are there freeware programs to delete partitions without wiping the drive(s) in question?

I had a 160GB drive installed temporarily on an early firewire bus and it automatically partitioned it to 128GB. So, when I put it in my powerbook there's now a partition of about 20GB which is unusable.

Rather than cloning a spare drive, wiping the new one in the powerbook and then cloning back on to that, I'd prefer just to delete the partition if possible.

I don't know of any freeware applications but you can check MacUpdate and VersionTracker.

 

[bored911]

i booted from the install cd, but i got nothing, it would only let me clear it, not delete the actual partition.

 

[AlBDamned]

i booted from the install cd, but i got nothing, it would only let me clear it, not delete the actual partition.

Mate, I just used the free VolumeWorks demo and it worked a treat. You have to boot off a different drive to the one you want to partition, and a backup drive is highly recommended just in case (cloned mine using SuperDuper), but it did the trick. Very straightforward.

Download VolumeWorks here. Read the instructions just in case.

Thanks bousozoku

 

[bored911]

thanks, i'll try it when i get home. (this is the first time i have been happy that i bought a 60 dollar, 120gb backup HD. It's slow but it works)

 

[AlBDamned]

thanks, i'll try it when i get home. (this is the first time i have been happy that i bought a 60 dollar, 120gb backup HD. It's slow but it works)

Excellent. I had no trouble with erasing the partition, but a backup really is just in case.

 

[plinden]

Since 10.4.6, the command line utility diskutil has had a resizeVolume option that is nondestructive.

http://www.macgeekery.com/tips/cli/nondestructively_resizing_volumes

 

[AlBDamned]

Since 10.4.6, the command line utility diskutil has had a resizeVolume option that is nondestructive.

http://www.macgeekery.com/tips/cli/nondestructively_resizing_volumes

The first few lines of that guide are enough to put me off trying a resize with diskutil. Not really recommended if you're not comfy with terminal wouldn't you say?

The following is highly suspected to be functional only on Intel Macs....

....The Finder doesn’t really like you toying with diskutil on your own. If at any point the realities of the file system aren’t reflected in the Finder, refresh disk arbitration with disktool -r and things should become sane again. When messing with partition tables, though, it’s sometimes necessary to unmount, eject, and reattach the drive to get things properly refreshed.

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