I recently grew my MacPro VM’s virtual disks from 128G to 256G, and ran ‘sudo diskutil resizeVolume / R’ to try to make the space available, but it told me ‘MediaKit reports partition (map) too small’. This will resize the Volume at / (Macintosh HD) to the maximum (R) So bust open Terminal.app and enter the following command sudo diskutil resizeVolume / R Hitting the partition button gives us thisĪnd Disk Utility can’t seem to see the extra space!įortunately its a trivial task to achieve the same goal using the command line. So we can see that the VMWare Virtual Disk is 94.49GB, but our Macintosh HD volume is only 34.57GB Hit apply and the volume will be expanded. To expand the Macintosh HD volume to the maximum, you just needed to click on the VMWare Virtual Disk, click the partition tab and drag the slider in the bottom right hand corner all the way to the bottom and note the size will change under the Partition Information. Note that the VMWare Virtual Disk is showing as 107.37GB, yet the Macintosh HD volume is showing as a capacity of 33.5GB

Increase the size of the virtual disk in VMWare Fusion Under Yosemite 10.10 and previous it was quite simple to increase the size of a virtual hard disk in VMWare Fusion and then simply expand the volume on the guest Mac OS VM One of the biggest changes is how the partition tab looks and functions.

It's a simple tip, but it's really useful for when just tapping the control on its own feels like too much of a jump, and you'd prefer more accurate control over, let's say, how quiet or loud your headphone audio output is, for example.Apple has made some changes to Disk Utility in OS X 10.11 El Capitan. Now go ahead and make your adjustments, and you should see the onscreen indicator move forwards and backwards in smaller increments (four over each segment).

With the help of a keyboard modifier, it's actually possible to make more nuanced quarter-step changes to sound volume and screen brightness using a total of 64 increments.īefore you press the volume or brightness controls, hold down the Option and Shift keys together on your keyboard.

Whenever you tap the volume or brightness controls on your keyboard, you'll see an indicator appear on your Mac's screen with 16 fixed increments separated by lines. However, there may be times when you want to make more fine grained adjustments to these settings than the default increments allow, in which case, read on. On a Mac that has a top row of function keys, Apple includes volume and brightness controls that can be used to make adjustments in stepwise increments.

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