User profile for user: billfromcalgary
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Why can't I partiton my hard drive?

I am attempting to partition my hard drive so that I can keep Snow Leopard on one partition and download Mavericks onto a new one. When I started, I had about 40 gigs of data on my 320-gig drive. I tried to create two equal partitions of 160 gigs each. The attempt failed and suggested I try different sizes, so I tried again specifying partitions of 180 gigs (for Snow Leopard) and 140 gigs (for Mavericks). During the attempt, a curtain fell over my screen saying I must shut down my computer and restart. I did that and now I still have only the one partition but the data takes up about 190 gigs. Even if I could partition, I won't have enough room for all this on the new partition, so there isn't any point. Is there some way I can shrink the data back to 40 gigs and then partition successfully?

iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Nov 1, 2013 11:46 AM

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User profile for user: baltwo
baltwo
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Nov 1, 2013 1:52 PM in response to billfromcalgary

billfromcalgary wrote:

During the attempt, a curtain fell over my screen saying I must shut down my computer and restart.

A couple of things. First you need to figure out where the additional 150 GBs of stuff resides. I've never seen that happen. As for the curtain, that's a kernel panic. Post the panic log. It should be in /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/ or in /username/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/.

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Nov 1, 2013 10:40 PM in response to baltwo

I can't find a PanicReporter utility, however I found a diagnostic report for today on the Console which doesn't make a lot of sense to me and the time is wrong. In any case, the first dozen lines are as follows:


Process: com.ubuntu.one.fsevents [56]
Path: /Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/com.ubuntu.one.fsevents
Identifier: com.ubuntu.one.fsevents
Version: ??? (1.3)
Code Type: X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [1]


Date/Time: 2013-11-01 18:10:40.513 -0600
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.6.8 (10K549)
Report Version: 6


Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 2


When I tried partitioning, Snow Leopard was running (along with a few programs). I understood this wouldn't interfere with the partition, but now I wonder. So I am considering booting up with the install disc instead and trying to partition off the 130 gigs of space left. Then I would drag a data set off my backup external drive. The last backup was only 30 gigs, so I would have lots of room left for Mavericks. I would just leave the other overstuffed partition as is—everything on it works well enough. Is this a rational plan?

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baltwo
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Nov 1, 2013 11:46 PM in response to billfromcalgary

billfromcalgary wrote:

I can't find a PanicReporter utility, however I found a diagnostic report for today on the Console

That's because there isn't such a thing; however, any panic log should show up in /Library/Logs/PanicReporter/. The diagnostic report should be in either /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/ or in /username/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/. Assuming that you know how to navigate within your system, you should be able to find the entire report, which might be more than what you posted. As for trying to partiton while booted with the install disc, you can give that shot.

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Nov 2, 2013 5:19 PM in response to baltwo

I found a LIbrary/Logs/CrashReporter and it now has two of these Ubunto One reports, one a day since my partition crash it seems. I'm posting the latest one below. I really can't make any sense out of it.


I haven't run Ubunto One for years. Is it possible my attempt to partition triggered it into duplicating files on my hard drive? In any case, I trashed it.


I won't try booting with my install disc until I hear back from you.


Process: com.ubuntu.one.fsevents [56]
Path: /Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/com.ubuntu.one.fsevents
Identifier: com.ubuntu.one.fsevents
Version: ??? (1.3)
Code Type: X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [1]


Date/Time: 2013-11-02 17:17:45.679 -0600
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.6.8 (10K549)
Report Version: 6


Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 2


Thread 0: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff831fed7a mach_msg_trap + 10
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff831ff3ed mach_msg + 59
2 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff81955902 __CFRunLoopRun + 1698
3 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff81954d8f CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 575
4 com.apple.Foundation 0x00007fff8344fb74 -[NSRunLoop(NSRunLoop) runMode:beforeDate:] + 270
5 com.apple.Foundation 0x00007fff8344fa53 -[NSRunLoop(NSRunLoop) run] + 77
6 com.ubuntu.one.fsevents 0x000000010000ac3c -[FSEventsDaemon application:runWithArguments:] + 1052
7 com.ubuntu.one.fsevents 0x000000010000b315 -[DDCliApplication runWithClass:] + 357
8 com.ubuntu.one.fsevents 0x000000010000b682 DDCliAppRunWithClass + 114
9 com.ubuntu.one.fsevents 0x0000000100001938 main + 56
10 com.ubuntu.one.fsevents 0x00000001000018f4 start + 52


Thread 1: com.apple.CFSocket.private
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff83242932 select$DARWIN_EXTSN + 10
1 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff81977468 __CFSocketManager + 824
2 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff83237fd6 _pthread_start + 331
3 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff83237e89 thread_start + 13


Thread 2 Crashed:
0 com.ubuntu.one.fsevents 0x0000000100001d2d +[FSEvent uidFromArg:] + 61
1 com.ubuntu.one.fsevents 0x0000000100002660 -[FSEvent setEventArgs:withOffset:withTotalSize:] + 1456
2 com.ubuntu.one.fsevents 0x00000001000043cb -[FSEventDispatcher run] + 859
3 com.apple.Foundation 0x00007fff83415114 __NSThread__main__ + 1429
4 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff83237fd6 _pthread_start + 331
5 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff83237e89 thread_start + 13


Thread 2 crashed with X86 Thread State (64-bit):
rax: 0x00007fff705ea498 rbx: 0x0000000100833c00 rcx: 0x0000000000000eea rdx: 0x0000000100026d30
rdi: 0x0000000000000002 rsi: 0x0000000000000000 rbp: 0x0000000100460980 rsp: 0x0000000100460960
r8: 0x00007fff705aaea8 r9: 0x0000000100307bb0 r10: 0x0000000000000000 r11: 0x0000000000000006
r12: 0x00007fff5fbff980 r13: 0x0000000000001803 r14: 0x00007fff83414b7f r15: 0x0000000100301840
rip: 0x0000000100001d2d rfl: 0x0000000000010206 cr2: 0x0000000000000000


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Nov 3, 2013 12:32 PM in response to baltwo

I tried partitioning again just for the **** of it, and this time I got a "File system verification failed" message. I googled for a solution and at OSXDaily (http://osxdaily.com/2012/03/05/fix-partition-failed-error-mac/), I found the following:


  1. Reboot the Mac into Single User Mode by holding Command+S during boot
  2. At the command prompt, type: 
    /sbin/fsck -fy
  3. When fsck is complete, type “exit” or “reboot” to reboot
  4. Boot the Mac as usual, verify the disk again in Disk Utility, and partition as usual


It worked beautifully—shrunk the data back to to its original size and allowed me to partition. I thought you might be interested.


Thanks for your time and effort on my problem.

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