Weird Storage Issue

[3lectr1cPPC]

Basically, I setup a sorbet partition on my G5, restored to it. It should be 250GB in size, but instead:
- Disk utility reports 250GB capacity, 8.6GB used, and 661MB Free
- Finder reports 9.21GB capacity and 661MB available. Any idea what’s up? Sorbet does boot on the partition, but I’m booted into Tiger in this photo.

 

[lobust]

Long time since I've messed around with restoring images on old osx, but restoring from a disk image will I think overwrite/modify the partition map to match the size of the image, not the partition you are restoring to.*

So, I am presuming that the Sorbet image is 10GB? And that if you partitioned this drive before the restore, you should have a large block of unused space in the partition map?

In which case, you should now be able to non-destructively resize the partition into the unused space. IIRC Disk Utility could actually do this, but it's been a long time...

*edit: again I can't say for certain as it's been such a long time, but I think there are options in the restore function to determine whether the original image size is maintained or if it's extended to fill the available space.

 

[jeremywork]

IIRC Disk Utility could actually do this, but it's been a long time...

I think this appeared just around the time of the Intel transition, so Sorbet Leopard should have it; I think I saw it work on Tiger/Intel but not sure about Tiger/PPC. If you select '465.8 GB WDC...' a Partition tab will appear, and you *should* be able to drag the volume most adjacent the free block to include all the extra space, and apply. Works even if you're booted from it.

If the one you want to increase is buried under one or more other partitions, a third party utility such as iPartition will be able to move the data to the correct location and then reshape the partition map in one user command. Might have to boot from a separate drive for that, it's been a while.

 

[3lectr1cPPC]

Long time since I've messed around with restoring images on old osx, but restoring from a disk image will I think overwrite/modify the partition map to match the size of the image, not the partition you are restoring to.*

I've used disk utility to restore the sorbet image to many a drive and its never done this.

Disk utility on leopard can't resize unfortunately. I was given a terminal command to do it over at TinkerDifferent but it didn't work. Running a disk verify on the volume produces errors as well, I think I'm gonna have to wipe it and start over.

 

[lobust]

I've used disk utility to restore the sorbet image to many a drive and its never done this.

Disk utility on leopard can't resize unfortunately. I was given a terminal command to do it over at TinkerDifferent but it didn't work. Running a disk verify on the volume produces errors as well, I think I'm gonna have to wipe it and start over.

Yeah I saw your post on TD, seems like you have some more serious issues with that drive, corrupted partition map or something...

 

[3lectr1cPPC]

Yeah, I only reformatted that one partition, may have to completely re partition the drive or even take it out and do a healthy check. It did have a few bad sectors IIRC when I installed it.