No I've just grown partitions with out loosing data. Just drag the spliter or enter in a different number.
Take care. On May 29, 2012, at 11:14 AM, Travis Siegel wrote: > > On May 29, 2012, at 1:36 PM, Courtney Curran wrote: > >> Hi, >> I don't need the 3rd partition, and I want to remove it to increase the >> space of the one partition that contains my growing itunes library, so I >> figured I'd have to remove the unneeded one to expand the itunes partition. > > Expanding partitions isn't as easy as that. > You'd be better off just mounting the empty partition somewhere under your > itunes hirarchy, since expanding usually entails backing up the partition, > removing both the backed up one, and the unwanted one, then creating a new > partition to fill the whole space, then restore all your files. > Much simpler just to mount the empty one somewhere itunes will use it. > But, since that's easier said than done for non-terminal folks, you may be > better served doing the whole backup, delete, rebuild, restore thing. > There's probably some way using apple provided utilities to change where your > partitions are mounted, (maybe disk utility can do this?) but I've never > tried doing this with said tools, so can't say for sure. > I tend to do things the old unix way, and just edit system files directly, > but that's generally not the best approach. > Perhaps someone else has a utility that can do what you're asking, but using > apple provided tools, I'm not sure it's doable without the whole > backup/rebuild/restore cycle. > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > mac-access@mac-access.net > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at > either the list's own dedicated web archive: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > or at the public Mail Archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. > Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> > > The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and > worm-free! > > Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting > the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
