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eeboarder Author

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resizeVolume reporting 'No Space Left on device (28)'. What's up?

Trying to resize my internal HDD. This is what I'm typing:

Last login: Sun Nov 5 19:14:35 on ttyp1
Welcome to Darwin!
zenith:~ jmeyer$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
#: type name size identifier
0: GUID partitionscheme *149.1 GB disk0
1: EFI 200.0 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Zenith 148.7 GB disk0s2
zenith:~ jmeyer$ sudo diskutil resizeVolume disk0s2 87G HFS+ Media 30G "MS-DOS FAT32" WinXP 30G
Password:
Started resizing on disk disk0s2 Zenith
Verifying
Resizing Volume

Resizing encountered error No space left on device (28) on disk disk0s2 Zenith
zenith:~ jmeyer$

There is obviously plenty of disk space. I've even tryed giving my first volume 70G and it still complained. Currently, my internal disk has 61.6G used out of 148.7G.

Why am I getting this and how do I fix it?

15" MacBook Pro Core2Duo, Mac OS X (10.4.8), 2.16GHz, 160 GB HDD, 2 GB Ram, Glossy

Posted on Nov 5, 2006 10:38 PM

20 replies

eeboarder Author

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Nov 9, 2006 2:58 PM in response to Jun T.

Didn't work. Same error message. I think I'm gonna do what you recommended and reinstall 10.4. However, after everything's partitioned and operational to my needs, I'll then use the migration assistant to get my contacts, mail, ect.....Thanks so much for the help. I'll be sure to keep my findings posted!

Nov 9, 2006 3:51 PM in response to eeboarder

eeboarder - just to be clear - you understand that when you partition the bood drive - everything will be erased. You can only use migration assistant to get data from some other location (an older computer or a second hard drive that you used to make a backup before you proceed with the reinstall...)

Cheers,
Mike

eeboarder Author

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Nov 9, 2006 9:02 PM in response to Michael Bradshaw

i'm well aware. Thanks!

eeboarder Author

Level 1

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Nov 14, 2006 11:00 AM in response to Jun T.

I did a complete erase and install with the MBP disk and made a temp admin account. The command worked flawlessly after that. Then, I used the Migration Assistant in the Utilities folder to transfer only the things I wanted from my old account. Everything went perfect.

Also, I got my Ethereal packet sniffer working again. X11 was acting very funny with the migration assistant apple starts for you when you first turn on the computer.

My system is ideal now. Thanks to everyone who put the time in to help me.

Nov 14, 2006 12:26 PM in response to eeboarder

Awesome news! So glad things finally are working as expected. Sometimes a clean install works wonders ...

resizeVolume reporting 'No Space Left on device (28)'. What's up?