I'm trying to restore the partitioning of my late 2011 Air drive, after messing it up while trying to dual boot OS X and Linux. The goal is to get rid of the superfluous partitions and resize the OS X one so I can use the whole drive again. I don't care about data loss.
According to Disk Utility the partitioning looks like this:
EFI
Macintosh HD
Recovery HD
06
07
08
09
When I try to erase any of the last four partitions get "File system resize support required" or "Couldn't modify partition table". Trying to verify the drive gives me "This disk doesn't contain an EFI system partition". The "Erase free space" button is grayed out. The rEFIt partitioning tool says "Status: Analysis inconclusive, will not touch this disk. Error: Not Found returned from gptsync.efi"
Also, all partitions mentioned above are showing up in Finder, I guess that is not supposed to happen?
Gdisk output:
Found valid GPT with hybrid MBR; using GPT.
Disk /dev/disk0: 236978176 sectors, 113.0 GiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): 00002DCF-4F07-0000-DB14-00001A000000
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 236978142
Partitions will be aligned on 2-sector boundaries
Total free space is 525817 sectors (256.7 MiB)
Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name
1 40 409639 200.0 MiB 0700 EFI system partition
2 409640 138052343 65.6 GiB AF00 Customer
3 138052344 139321879 619.9 MiB AF00 Recovery HD
4 139321880 139731479 200.0 MiB EF00 EFI System Partition
5 139732992 148881847 4.4 GiB 0700 LINUX
6 149143992 149145945 977.0 KiB 0700
7 149145946 228772899 38.0 GiB 0700
8 228772904 236715991 3.8 GiB 0700
Thanks
According to Disk Utility the partitioning looks like this:
EFI
Macintosh HD
Recovery HD
06
07
08
09
When I try to erase any of the last four partitions get "File system resize support required" or "Couldn't modify partition table". Trying to verify the drive gives me "This disk doesn't contain an EFI system partition". The "Erase free space" button is grayed out. The rEFIt partitioning tool says "Status: Analysis inconclusive, will not touch this disk. Error: Not Found returned from gptsync.efi"
Also, all partitions mentioned above are showing up in Finder, I guess that is not supposed to happen?
Gdisk output:
Found valid GPT with hybrid MBR; using GPT.
Disk /dev/disk0: 236978176 sectors, 113.0 GiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): 00002DCF-4F07-0000-DB14-00001A000000
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 236978142
Partitions will be aligned on 2-sector boundaries
Total free space is 525817 sectors (256.7 MiB)
Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name
1 40 409639 200.0 MiB 0700 EFI system partition
2 409640 138052343 65.6 GiB AF00 Customer
3 138052344 139321879 619.9 MiB AF00 Recovery HD
4 139321880 139731479 200.0 MiB EF00 EFI System Partition
5 139732992 148881847 4.4 GiB 0700 LINUX
6 149143992 149145945 977.0 KiB 0700
7 149145946 228772899 38.0 GiB 0700
8 228772904 236715991 3.8 GiB 0700
Thanks