Hi,
I'm somewhat of a OS/X newbie. I have El Capitan installed under vmware. I setup a single virtual 60GB disk initially, but hit some space issues when I wanted to install xcode. I'm somewhat family with vmware, linux, windows/linux partitioning, lvm etc.
Within vmware I could easily extend the emulated disk to 80GB but am unclear how to extend the OS/X partition
If I launch Disk Utility it clearly says
VMware Virtual SATA Hard Drive Media
85.9 GB PCI External Physical Disk
It graphically shows only a single volume (sorry, new to OS/x so terminology may be wrong) called El Capitan of size 64.21 GB. This appears to take up the entire space visually (blue bar)
When I click "El Capitan" in the left nav I see:
ElCapitan
63.56 GB PCI External Physical Volume OS X Extended
I can see space usage
if I click "partition" against the top level device I can see it's setup with GUID partitioning. The pie chart shows 360 degrees blue so I see no way to extend the volume
So how do I resize that volume?
if I was using Linux, at this point I'd probably just create a second virtual disk (file) in vmware, then use LVM to add into volume group, and extend the LV, then the filesystem . Easy. But as I said, I don't know OS/X.. just learning!
Update - here's the output from diskutil. I'm guessing it's the hidden recovery partition to blame? That may need moving with gparted first?
Mac:~ jonesn$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (external, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *85.9 GB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS ElCapitan 63.6 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3
/dev/disk1 (disk image):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: Apple_partition_scheme +17.4 MB disk1
1: Apple_partition_map 32.3 KB disk1s1
2: Apple_HFS Flash Player 17.4 MB disk1s2
The detailed output is at http://pastebin.com/1RfYL7W9
I'm somewhat of a OS/X newbie. I have El Capitan installed under vmware. I setup a single virtual 60GB disk initially, but hit some space issues when I wanted to install xcode. I'm somewhat family with vmware, linux, windows/linux partitioning, lvm etc.
Within vmware I could easily extend the emulated disk to 80GB but am unclear how to extend the OS/X partition
If I launch Disk Utility it clearly says
VMware Virtual SATA Hard Drive Media
85.9 GB PCI External Physical Disk
It graphically shows only a single volume (sorry, new to OS/x so terminology may be wrong) called El Capitan of size 64.21 GB. This appears to take up the entire space visually (blue bar)
When I click "El Capitan" in the left nav I see:
ElCapitan
63.56 GB PCI External Physical Volume OS X Extended
I can see space usage
if I click "partition" against the top level device I can see it's setup with GUID partitioning. The pie chart shows 360 degrees blue so I see no way to extend the volume
So how do I resize that volume?
if I was using Linux, at this point I'd probably just create a second virtual disk (file) in vmware, then use LVM to add into volume group, and extend the LV, then the filesystem . Easy. But as I said, I don't know OS/X.. just learning!
Update - here's the output from diskutil. I'm guessing it's the hidden recovery partition to blame? That may need moving with gparted first?
Mac:~ jonesn$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (external, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *85.9 GB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS ElCapitan 63.6 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3
/dev/disk1 (disk image):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: Apple_partition_scheme +17.4 MB disk1
1: Apple_partition_map 32.3 KB disk1s1
2: Apple_HFS Flash Player 17.4 MB disk1s2
The detailed output is at http://pastebin.com/1RfYL7W9
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