rotur Posted May 28, 2017 Share Posted May 28, 2017 (edited) Greetings, Since my Imac HD died some time back I have been using an external USB 3 drive as the main drive with two partitions. One at 360GB for the OS and a second drive (1.64TB) as storage. I now find the OS drive is getting full and wondered if there is any way of resizing without losing the data from either partition. The details as below...when I do try to resize within Disk Utility, I can resize the larger Logic Backup section, but this just creates a third partition which is not what I want...unless there is a way of copying the OS partition over to this newly created partition without loss of data? Would appreciate any of you Mac savvy peeps to lend a voice here... PS the handles in the pic below when moved automatically create the third partition... Edited May 28, 2017 by rotur Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hippy Posted May 28, 2017 Share Posted May 28, 2017 https://www.google.com.au/?gws_rd=ssl#q=increase+size+of+OS+partition&spf=1495964506794 But in all seriousness you should just run the OS off a SSD internally and use the other drive, or another large HDD internally for storage. 80GB is usually more than enough for an OS and a ton of other programs but SSD's are pretty cheap nowadays. Try using CCleaner to free up space perhaps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rotur Posted May 28, 2017 Author Share Posted May 28, 2017 Thanks for that ...late 2012 Imac makes for a tricky removal and replacement of drives and I cant afford to have it done professionally...$450 minimum and as high as $650...will try CCleaner and see how that goes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GregWormald Posted May 30, 2017 Share Posted May 30, 2017 The system and all basic software on my MacMini (used as a music server) tops out at 89 Gig, the Air tops out at 120 Gig (including 24 Gig of books). I'm sure lots could be offload onto the storage partition. I have used "alias" links for that purpose. Greg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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