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error: Mediakit reports no such partition.
I cannot delete or resize partitions within Disk Utility. I get the this error when trying to do so. "Mediakit reports no such partition." It is an external USB drive. My book.
MacBook Pro
If the file system on the drive is NTFS, then that is why macOS cannot modify it. macOS can only read NTFS volumes by default. It is best to only use a file system that macOS supports natively such as exFAT if the drive needs to be shared with Windows, otherwise use a macOS file system such as MacOS Extended (Journaled) or APFS. APFS is only compatible with Macs running macOS 10.13+, so if the drive needs to be used with older Macs running older versions of macOS, then use MacOS Extended (Journaled).
Why do you want to partition a drive? How are these partitions going to be used? I highly discourage this practice because people usually end up with major problems later on when they discover that one or more partitions don't have enough space.
If the file system on the drive is NTFS, then that is why macOS cannot modify it. macOS can only read NTFS volumes by default. It is best to only use a file system that macOS supports natively such as exFAT if the drive needs to be shared with Windows, otherwise use a macOS file system such as MacOS Extended (Journaled) or APFS. APFS is only compatible with Macs running macOS 10.13+, so if the drive needs to be used with older Macs running older versions of macOS, then use MacOS Extended (Journaled).
Why do you want to partition a drive? How are these partitions going to be used? I highly discourage this practice because people usually end up with major problems later on when they discover that one or more partitions don't have enough space.
It is an external My Book USB drive.
Mediakit reports no such partition
