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Topic: GParted doesn't recognize Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, journaled)

I have an external hard disk on my mac book pro (OS X 10.6.8).  Originally I partitioned it with the Disk Utility into 3 partitions - for TimeMachine, Mac files, and Windows files.  The first 2 partitions are - Mac OS Extended (Case Sensitive, journaled) format.  The third is NTFS.

I want to change the sizes of all 3 partitions, but GParted lists the first 2 as unknown format.  Does that mean I can't use GParted to change those partitions?

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Re: GParted doesn't recognize Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, journaled)

Would you be able to provide the output from the following two commands?

fdisk -l -u

where one of the options is a lower case "L" and not the number one.

parted /path-to-your-device unit s print

where /path-to-your-device is something like /dev/sda.

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Re: GParted doesn't recognize Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, journaled)

gedakc wrote:

Would you be able to provide the output from the following two commands?

fdisk -l -u

where one of the options is a lower case "L" and not the number one.

parted /path-to-your-device unit s print

where /path-to-your-device is something like /dev/sda.


I'm sorry. I already repartitioned and reformatted the drive.  Thanks for the reply anyway.

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Re: GParted doesn't recognize Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, journaled)

plevintampabay wrote:

I'm sorry. I already repartitioned and reformatted the drive.  Thanks for the reply anyway.

What did you use for repartitioning?
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Re: GParted doesn't recognize Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, journaled)

Tipsacon wrote:

What did you use for repartitioning?

Repartitioning was the reason this whole exercise began.  I wanted gparted to repartition (changing from 3 partitions to 2) the disk.  It would have been nice to do so without having to reformat, but it wasn't too painful.