How to resize a HFS+ Partition? [closed]

Solution 1:

Just cleanly partition the new disk to any size you like and copy the data over with Carbon Copy Cloner. It will be bootable and have the size you want.

You can do that on a running system, and don't need any live cd's or anything, just an usb or firewire interface for the new/second harddisk.

Solution 2:

I think there is a GUI way of doing this with Disk Utility but I can't remember off the top of my head. Anyway you should be able to resize a hfs+ volume nondestructively from the command line. The article is kind of old but the syntax haven't changed so it should still be the same. Standard warning like you should have a backup and don't try to resize the current boot drive but boot off CD or backup drive applies. You may also want to do sync and reboot right after resize as I don't know how much to trust finder to pickup the change right away.

http://www.macworld.com/article/55274/2007/02/marchgeekfactor.html