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Appendix B File System
Expansion for Macintosh
Overview
This appendix describes the procedures needed with Apple Mac OS X for expanding file systems
that have been created on volumes that have increased in size, while preserving all of your
existing data. After you have added more hard disk drives to increase the storage capacity of a
BIG volume, you must use the supplemental procedure described below to allow the expanded
capacity to be recognized by Mac OS X.
The following example illustrates a hard disk growing from a JBOD to a BIG Storage Policy.
A software tool named
VolumeWorks from SubrosaSoft (available from
http://www.subrosasoft.com/OSXSoftware/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=6) can be
used to grow the partition that was created in JBOD Storage Policy to a BIG Storage Policy disk.
SubrosaSoft VolumeWorks easily organizes your hard drive by creating, resizing, copying your
partitions on a Mac OS X (10.3 or higher) system.
There are other third-party products are available to perform similar volume management
activities, but those products are very sophisticated and are not described in this manual.
Procedure
Growing partition/volume with VolumeWorks:
Limitations of Resize/Move
x VolumeWorks can only resize HFS+ partitions
x The second drive when growing from JBOD to BIG must not have any partition
information on it. It must be a raw disk with no data of any kind.
To extend a volume, follow these steps:
1. Start VolumeWorks
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