iMac FusionDrive Lost Partition

[milomak]

I tried to create a 3rd partition (OSX / Bootcamp / Linux) to see if a Linux distro would see it.

It seems that this 3rd partition for Linux is not seen at all. How can I reclaim this space either for OSX or BOOTCAMP?

I have a Time Machine for the OSX install. I would hate to have to reinstall Windows and start fresh with the games and what else on that partition.

 

[maflynn]

Fusion drives only allow one other partition to be made. How did you create the partition?

 

[milomak]

disk utility

 

[Fishrrman]

I could be wrong on the following, but I believe the only way to end up with a "third partition" (or more than three) is to do the following:

- "DE-fuse" the fusion drive (you must back up everything first)
- Partition the HDD as desired.
- "RE-fuse" the SSD to one of the HDD partitions (has to be HFS+ and probably should be "the first" partition on the drive)

Result will be a fusion drive + 2 "standalone" partitions on the HDD.