Q: partition missing
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Dec 17, 2015 5:56 AMby PoppyNipote,bradleys-MBP:~ bradleycordice$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *500.3 GB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 325.4 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3
bradleys-MBP:~ bradleycordice$
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Dec 17, 2015 6:06 AMby Loner T,We are now going to merge the Recovery HD into OSX partition and then extend it to give you back all your space. Once OSX spans the entire disk, re-install OSX to get Recovery HD back.
1. The order is critical in the following command.
diskutil mergePartitions jhfs+ "Macintosh HD" disk0s2 disk0s3
2. Run Disk Utility and extend (drag the bottom right corner) or the handle to its maximum.
The command syntax is
diskutil mergePartitions
Usage: diskutil mergePartitions [force] format name
DiskIdentifier|DeviceNode DiskIdentifier|DeviceNode
Merge two or more pre-existing partitions into one. The first disk parameter
is the starting partition; the second disk parameter is the ending partition;
this given range of two or more partitions will be merged into one.
All partitions in the range, except for the first one, must be unmountable.
All data on merged partitions other than the first will be lost; data on the
first partition will be lost as well if the "force" argument is given.
If "force" is not given, and the first partition has a resizable file system
(e.g. JHFS+), it will be grown in a data-preserving manner, even if a different
file system is specified (in fact, your file system and volume name parameters
are both ignored in this case). If "force" is not given, and the first
partition is not resizable, you will be prompted if you want to erase.
If "force" is given, the first partition is always formatted. You should
do this if you wish to reformat to a new file system type.
Merged partitions are required to be ordered sequentially on disk.
See diskutil list for the actual on-disk ordering; BSD slice identifiers
may in certain circumstances not always be in numerical order but the
top-to-bottom order given by diskutil list is always the on-disk order.
Ownership of the affected disk is required.
Example: diskutil mergePartitions JHFS+ NewName disk3s4 disk3s7
This example will merge all partitions *BETWEEN* disk3s4 and disk3s7,
preserving data on disk3s4 but destroying data on disk3s5, disk3s6,
disk3s7 and any invisible free space partitions between those disks;
disk3s4 will be grown to cover the full space if possible.
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Dec 17, 2015 6:28 AMby PoppyNipote,Clarification required? - The handle (bottom right corner) that you are referring to, would i have a better understanding of what this is once i run the command as I am looking at the disk utility app right now and see no such thing (pre command input)
Furthermore thank you for all your patience and help during these processes and steps, i haven't said it till now but its all been greatly appreciated
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Dec 17, 2015 6:32 AMby Loner T,If you do not want to use Disk Utlity, please try the following command in step 2. Please run the following two commands
diskutil resizeVolume disk0s2 limits
diskutil resizeVolume disk0s2 R
The syntax is
diskutil resizeVolume
Usage: diskutil resizeVolume MountPoint|DiskIdentifier|DeviceNode size
[part1Format part1Name part1Size part2Format part2Name part2Size
part3Format part3Name part3Size ...]
Non-destructively resize a disk. You may increase or decrease its size.
When decreasing size, you may optionally specify new partitions to create
to fill the newly-freed space. Specify these new partitions as in the
diskutil partitionDisk command. A size of zero will cause a grow fit-to-fill.
Ownership of the affected disk is required.
Valid sizes are floating-point numbers with a suffix of B(ytes), S(512-byte-
blocks), K(ilobytes), M(egabytes), G(igabytes), T(erabytes), P(etabytes),
or (%)percentage of the total size of the whole disk.
A size of "limits" will print the valid range for the current conditions of
the file system and room to grow up to an immovable object (next partition).
A size of "R" for the target partition will resize it to the maximum
possible; "R" cannot be used for the size of new partition triples, if any.
resizeVolume is only supported on a Journaled HFS+ file system.
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Dec 17, 2015 6:42 AMby PoppyNipote,bradleys-MBP:~ bradleycordice$ diskutil resizeVolume disk0s2 limits
For device disk0s2 Macintosh HD:
Current size: 499.9 GB (499933818880 Bytes)
Minimum size: 101.9 GB (101904809984 Bytes)
Maximum size: 499.9 GB (499933818880 Bytes)
bradleys-MBP:~ bradleycordice$ diskutil resizeVolume disk0s2 R
Resizing to full size (fit to fill)
Started partitioning on disk0s2 Macintosh HD
Verifying the disk
Verifying file system
Using live mode
Performing live verification
Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume
Checking multi-linked files
Checking catalog hierarchy
Checking extended attributes file
Checking volume bitmap
Checking volume information
File system check exit code is 0
Resizing
Finished partitioning on disk0s2 Macintosh HD
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *500.3 GB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 499.9 GB disk0s2
bradleys-MBP:~ bradleycordice$
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Dec 17, 2015 6:50 AMby Loner T,If you re-install the current El Capitan from the App Store, you should get your Recovery HD back. After you get Recovery HD back, create a Time Machine backup and then run BCA to install Windows.
Internet Recovery will try to give you the OSX version that was shipped with your Mac, which you do not want.
