![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I have had many other things to do so letting it run has not been an issue… but, I am ready to get on with this and put it back in use. ![]() The external drive caddy light still shows activity as it has all along (same on/off patterned). The new MacBook Air comes with a 256-GB hard drive. Click on the Apple icon and select About this Mac on the pop-up screen. I am now on hour 92 of shrinking the partition. Today in 2023, MacBooks are more spacious than ever. How to Increase Storage by Optimising the Disk Storage 1.) Open About this Mac. I went into the Disk Utility and began the partition resize of my 1TB to get it down to the 200GB mark (to leave some headroom for the unknown). I followed several success stories for the setup and everything connected and booted up fine. Go to Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility > the drive you want to change. So with all this in place I installed the new SSD and a new internal 4TB drive (to be used for data only) and connected my old 1TB to an external USB drive caddy and fired it all up. If anything runs on the backend behind the scenes I don’t about it…. The drive has been in use for SOME time now with no specific defragmenting or anything on my part. I launched and went to Disk Utility and see this I cannot resize the blue area for some reason. It told me to then handle the partitions for it to take effect inside macOS. I was able to get it down to about 100GB and that by moving all my data off to an external drive – no sweat there. I want to expand the disk space, so I went into VMware settings and expanded disk capacity from 40GB to 80GB. I had planned on just cleaning up my 1TB drive and get it down to just the system file / OS and under 240GB. In the Disk Utility app on your Mac, select a volume in the sidebar, then click the Partition button in the toolbar. If you are adding a disk to a concatenated disk set, the Add Member and Add Spares options don’t appear. Choose Add Member or Add Spares to designate the disk as a standard member or spare in the set. I am installing a new 240GB SSD as my system drive in an iMac 27″ (mid 2011) I had been using a 1TB internal drive (with a 1TB partition) only for the system and data drive. In the Disk Utility app on your Mac, select the disk set in the sidebar, then click the Add button. ![]()
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