mageus Posted May 13, 2010 Share Posted May 13, 2010 I restored a dmg of my prior system to a larger partition (new drive). The new drive shows the same available space as the old partition, even though it is 4GB larger. Specs: Dell Mini 9 SL 10.6.1 Original drive - stock SSD with MBR partition scheme (~9GB partition) New drive - larger SSD with MBR partition scheme (~13GB partition) - Boot from USB drive and create an image of my Mini's original OSX partition using Disk Utility - Swap out the SSD for the new one - Partition the new SSD using Ubuntu Live CD, MBR scheme - Boot from USB drive and restore image to the new partition - Finder shows 13GB drive, 9GB on disk, 4GB available - OmniDiskSweeper shows 5GB total It appears that in restoring the image, it's blocked off 4 GB of space, the difference between the old partition and the new partition. I assumed that restoring an image would expand the system to fill the new partition size. Is this the default behaviour of Drive Utility. If Drive Utility won't work, will CCC do what I want for MBR partitions? The reason I'm doing this is because Software Update wants 5.6GB free to install the 10.6.3 upgrade. TIA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
epicvengeance Posted May 13, 2010 Share Posted May 13, 2010 Post a screen shot of Disk Utilities, if possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mageus Posted May 13, 2010 Author Share Posted May 13, 2010 I reformatted the destination SSD and tried again. It worked this time. Must have been some random write error. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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