In disk utility I tried to restore from the second to the (now erased) first partition, but it said it could not be restored and to restart in repair mode. Yosemite was the second partition and could only be “shrunk” The first partition could also be shrunk, but the space via Disk Utility is not available to the second partition. Hi Aaron, I also worked that out and yes astoundingly convoluted, but it worked.
How to check storage on mac yosemite install#
So my new Yosemite install was stuck on a partition with only 10GB of free space, when it could have had 400 from the old Mavericks partition.
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(According to Ars Technica, there’s not a clear reason why, either.) I’m not sure of all the technical details, but this apparently killed flexibility. Some research found that Yosemite will change its partition from HFS+ to “Core Storage”.
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How to check storage on mac yosemite full#
I found this out after spending a full day getting the new Yosemite partition just right. Once I’m sure that all is fine and dandy, I will go back and delete the older partition and give the space to the new one.īut when I tried this with 10.10 Yosemite, I ran into a new problem. In the past, I’ve made a new partition on my drive, installed the new OS X (like Mavericks), copied all my files from the old partition to the new one. On Macs, this has usually been fairly easy, since HFS+ partitions are pretty flexible - they’ll let you add/remove/resize without a lot of hassle. So when a new version of any OS comes out, I like to do a clean install.