OS X :: Create A Partition On My Internal HDD On 10.4.11?
Nov 19, 2008
I am trying to create a partition on my internal HDD on 10.4.11. I have tried two ways.
Terminal way $ diskutil partitionDisk disk0s3 1 HFS+ rigantaHFS+ 15G
- That returned an error ( i would say plausible) " couldn't unmount disk for zeroing" " couldn't unmount disk (-1000) on disk0"
- i did try the same command line in single user mode but that did yield anything at all. I got the same error message.
Disk Utility (/applications/utilities/diskutility)
- I basically cannot partition my internal HDD without erasing my the entire HDD
- So my question is :"how to create another partition on my HDD, without erasing the entire HDD?"
I am using a PPC with tiger 10.4.11
PS: the reason why I am not using the disk utility on the install DVD is that I have lost them.
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/dev/disk0s2 465Gi 407Gi 58Gi 88% /
devfs 113Ki 113Ki 0Bi 100% /dev
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