New Harddrive

[Networkrail]

evening everyone,

I've just upgraded my hard drive in my MacBook Pro 13" late 2011 to a WD 1TB and created a cloned of my existing drive but for some reason the machintosh HD partition is only showing 749.3 GB of space but the drives capacity is 1TB.

I've tried to increase the size of the partition by dragging the box down to the bottom then pressing apply but it tries to do it the. Reverts back to the 749.3gb.

Can anyone tell me how I can increase the partition size to the full 1tb capacity?

 

[McGiord]

Do you have Time Machine On?
It happened to me in the past that if it is one and you haven't connect to Time Machine, the Apple Portables eat u some of the space by creating some local backup until you connect it again o Time Machine.

Any recovery partition?

I my old MacBook I needed to run these every once in a while to have the right drive sizes reported in the Finder:
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/maintscripts.html

Keep in mind this too.
1 TB = 1,024 GB = 1,204 MB = 1,024 KB = 1,024 Bytes

 

[Weaselboy]

Run each of these command in Terminal one after the other and tell use the output of each so we can try and help.

diskutil list

diskutil cs list

 

[Networkrail]

Okay this is what I get:

Last login: Mon Nov 16 19:09:33 on console

Lees-MBP:~ leerigby$ diskutil list

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk0

1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1

2: Apple_CoreStorage Macintosh HD 749.3 GB disk0s2

3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3

/dev/disk1 (internal, virtual):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD +748.9 GB disk1

Logical Volume on disk0s2

200EE850-C2EB-46E2-82FF-92542DAD18FA

Unlocked Encrypted

Lees-MBP:~ leerigby$ diskutil cs list

CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)

|

+-- Logical Volume Group 1487B511-0757-4E9B-AA4E-71EA9C0CC8EC

=========================================================

Name: Macintosh HD

Status: Online

Size: 749296615424 B (749.3 GB)

Free Space: 18939904 B (18.9 MB)

|

+-< Physical Volume 8DC65FBE-7583-4CB3-ABFA-667EB7AA8FCF

| ----------------------------------------------------

| Index: 0

| Disk: disk0s2

| Status: Online

| Size: 749296615424 B (749.3 GB)

|

+-> Logical Volume Family C240B078-63E3-499D-9DDC-4A5FA37978F8

----------------------------------------------------------

Encryption Type: AES-XTS

Encryption Status: Unlocked

Conversion Status: Converting (forward)

High Level Queries: Not Fully Secure

| Passphrase Required

| Accepts New Users

| Has Visible Users

| Has Volume Key

|

+-> Logical Volume 200EE850-C2EB-46E2-82FF-92542DAD18FA

---------------------------------------------------

Disk: disk1

Status: Online

Size (Total): 748925353984 B (748.9 GB)

Conversion Progress: 0%

Revertible: Yes (unlock and decryption required)

LV Name: Macintosh HD

Volume Name: Macintosh HD

Content Hint: Apple_HFS

Lees-MBP:~ leerigby$

 

[Weaselboy]

Okay.. the issue is you have FileVault turned on and you cannot resize a volume in Disk Utility with FileVault on. You will need to turn off FileVault and wait for it to unencrypt then you can resize normally.

I am troubled by these two lines though. How long ago did you turn on FileVault because it appears it has not encrypted anything yet? How did you do the clone?

Conversion Status: Converting (forward)
Conversion Progress: 0%

 

[Networkrail]

I cloned the hard drive using a HDD docking station.

How do I turn off file vault?

 

[Networkrail]

Okay I've found it but it's encrypting the drive and I don't know how to stop it.

 

[Weaselboy]

Okay I've found it but it's encrypting the drive and I don't know how to stop it.

How long has it been encrypting? You will need to wait for it to finish encrypting before you can turn off FileVault. You can turn it off in the Security and Privacy pane in System Preferences. There is a tab there for FileVault.

What software did you use to clone?

 

[Networkrail]

I never used any software it's just an a-b hard drive hub that clones hard drives one to another.

 

[Networkrail]

Okay, I've decrypted the hard drive and now it's showing that the disk partition is at full capacity but still only shows 750gb when the real capacity is 1TB.

 

[Weaselboy]

Okay, I've decrypted the hard drive and now it's showing that the disk partition is at full capacity but still only shows 750gb when the real capacity is 1TB.

Okay run this command again and tell me what it says.

diskutil cs list