Resize boot disk?

[Drew017]

Is there ANY way to resize my boot disk without erasing data? I had to do an emergency reinstall of leopard, and I had to partition my hard drive to install because my backup disk image of the install was on my HD. Right now I have a fresh install of leopard, and I deleted my old partition, but I still have almost half of my HD with free space. Look at the image.

 

[larkost]

MacOS X only allows you to move the end-point of your volume, you can't move the start point. So in your case this is not going to be very helpful.

However, what you can do is create anothe partition in the blank space at the front of your disk, and then use DiskUtility to clone your current volume to that new volumne. Then if you want you can delete your old volume (while booted from the new), and expand the new volume into that space.

 

[Drew017]

MacOS X only allows you to move the end-point of your volume, you can't move the start point. So in your case this is not going to be very helpful.

However, what you can do is create anothe partition in the blank space at the front of your disk, and then use DiskUtility to clone your current volume to that new volumne. Then if you want you can delete your old volume (while booted from the new), and expand the new volume into that space.

And that will work? I'll give it a go! Thanks!

 

[Drew017]

Thanks for your input! Actually, the first method worked! I now have one 60GB HD again . Thanks!!! I think I will get an external and make a system duplicate so this won't happen again!