Resizing existing partitions on an external USB2 HDD in Mac OS?
 

Hello.

Mac OS (Mountain Lion v10.8.5 & Sierra v10.12.1)'s Disk Utility won't
let me resize 2 existing partitions (FAT32 [datas and sharing with other
OSes like Windows] & encrypted HFS+ [Time Machine + other datas]). I
wanted to make its FAT32 partition smaller & HFS+ partition bigger
without losing data, redoing from scratch, etc. It doesn't seem to let
me. Does its Disk Utility not let me do that like in Linux and Windows?
:(

Thank you in advance. :)
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Resizing existing partitions on an external USB2 HDD in Mac OS?
 

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Hello.

Mac OS (Mountain Lion v10.8.5 & Sierra v10.12.1)'s Disk Utility won't
let me resize 2 existing partitions (FAT32

That's why.

Does its Disk Utility not let me do that like in Linux and Windows?

Not with FAT partitions.

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Resizing existing partitions on an external USB2 HDD in Mac OS?
 

In alt.comp.periphs.hdd Lewis wrote:
In message
Ant wrote:
Hello.

Mac OS (Mountain Lion v10.8.5 & Sierra v10.12.1)'s Disk Utility won't
let me resize 2 existing partitions (FAT32

That's why.

Does its Disk Utility not let me do that like in Linux and Windows?

Not with FAT partitions.

Oh. So they need to be HFS+ to repartition. Darn it. I was hoping it
would be like old PartitionMagic, qtparted, etc. :(
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Resizing existing partitions on an external USB2 HDD in Mac OS?
 

Ant wrote:
In alt.comp.periphs.hdd Lewis wrote:
In message
Ant wrote:
Hello.

Mac OS (Mountain Lion v10.8.5 & Sierra v10.12.1)'s Disk Utility won't
let me resize 2 existing partitions (FAT32

That's why.

Does its Disk Utility not let me do that like in Linux and Windows?

Not with FAT partitions.

Oh. So they need to be HFS+ to repartition. Darn it. I was hoping it
would be like old PartitionMagic, qtparted, etc. :(

Yes, it's oh so limited and sub-par! I mean everyone knows PartitionMagic,
qtparted, etc would resize HFS volumes! /sarcasm

Your expectations are unrealistic.

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