Disk Utility not showing free space

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Disk Utility not showing free space

Hi,

I'm using a Macbook Pro 15" (late 2007) with MacOS 10.11.1 with a 1 TB Seagate 2.5" SSHD (ST1000LM014-1EJ164)

The Disk Utility shows the disk having 1 TB capacity, but the Macintosh HD, with 503,94 GB is using 100% of the disk. I wanted to create another partition with the other 500 GB that should be free on the disk, but when I click "Partitioning", there is no free space available on the disk.

Thanks for your advice.

MacBook Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11.1)

Posted on Nov 7, 2015 11:01 AM

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leroydouglas

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Nov 7, 2015 11:11 AM in response to fbteixeira

You need to click on the volume "Macintosh HD"

To address your larger problem, in terminal copy and paste:

df -H

another look

diskutil list

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fbteixeira Author

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Nov 7, 2015 11:12 AM in response to leroydouglas

leroydouglas, the question is that I want to create another partition. The disk is 1 TB and the Macintosh HD is only 500 GB, I should have at least 500 GB free to create another partition, but Macintosh HD is occupying the whole disk.

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Nov 7, 2015 11:12 AM in response to fbteixeira

Do you have filevault turned on?

fdesetup status

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fbteixeira Author

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Nov 7, 2015 11:18 AM in response to leroydouglas

No.

fdesetup status

FileVault is Off.

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Answer 5

Nov 7, 2015 11:19 AM in response to fbteixeira

df -H

another look

diskutil list

and the results of these commands?

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fbteixeira Author

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Nov 7, 2015 11:22 AM in response to leroydouglas

fd -H

Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on

/dev/disk0s2 503G 383G 120G 77% 93601979 29270954 76% /

devfs 334k 334k 0B 100% 1129 0 100% /dev

map -hosts 0B 0B 0B 100% 0 0 100% /net

map auto_home 0B 0B 0B 100% 0 0 100% /home

diskutil list

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk0

1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1

2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 503.3 GB disk0s2

3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3

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R C-R

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Nov 7, 2015 11:36 AM in response to fbteixeira

I suggest you select 1 TB disk as shown in your screen shot & click the First Aid button (I assume Primeiros soccoros is that button). Run First Aid on the disk; then select Macintosh HD volume under it & do the same thing.

If you get any errors from either run, reboot into the Recovery System & run the First Aid on the disk or volume with the error from the copy of Disk Utility on the Recovery volume.

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Answer 8

Nov 7, 2015 11:40 AM in response to fbteixeira

Yes, I agree with R C-R above. This should be your first step.

If that does not resolve the issue, I suggest a current redundant backup

and then re-partition the drive, formatting and creating 2 partitions at that time. (which will wipe out all stored data!)

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