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I have a MacBook with a 120GB120 GB SSD. I bought a new one with 240GB240 GB. I cloned the content from the old one over with an ICY BOX cloning device. I inserted new SSD in the MacBook and everything is fine and works. But I then noticed in the disk utility that the size of the partition is still the old one (120GB120 GB).

So here is what I have tried toso far:

  1. I dragged the partition in the pie chart to use all unlocated available space. But then I get the error from MediaKit: "Error: -5341: MediaKit reports partition (map) too small".

  2. I ran GParted on a USB flash drive, mounted it and gparted noticed some errors with the partition. it immediatly repaired it. Then I tried to increase the partition within GParted. But this was not possible. GParted can't increase HFS+ format. But after repairing it with GParted, disk utility does not show free space any longer. enter image description here

  3. I ran Terminal and diskutil resizeVolume. But it breaks up with an error message: "Error obtaining partition map size information" diskutil list

And now I am completely lost. What’s wrong and what can I do to reclaim the additional space?

I have a MacBook with a 120GB SSD. I bought a new one with 240GB. I cloned the content from the old one over with an ICY BOX cloning device. I inserted new SSD in the MacBook and everything is fine and works. But I then noticed in the disk utility that the size of the partition is still the old one (120GB).

So here is what I have tried to far:

  1. I dragged the partition in the pie chart to use all unlocated available space. But then I get the error from MediaKit: "Error: -5341: MediaKit reports partition (map) too small".

  2. I ran GParted on a USB flash drive, mounted it and gparted noticed some errors with the partition. it immediatly repaired it. Then I tried to increase the partition within GParted. But this was not possible. GParted can't increase HFS+ format. But after repairing it with GParted, disk utility does not show free space any longer. enter image description here

  3. I ran Terminal and diskutil resizeVolume. But it breaks up with an error message: "Error obtaining partition map size information" diskutil list

And now I am completely lost. What’s wrong and what can I do to reclaim the additional space?

I have a MacBook with a 120 GB SSD. I bought a new one with 240 GB. I cloned the content from the old one over with an ICY BOX cloning device. I inserted new SSD in the MacBook and everything is fine and works. But I then noticed in the disk utility that the size of the partition is still the old one (120 GB).

So here is what I have tried so far:

  1. I dragged the partition in the pie chart to use all unlocated available space. But then I get the error from MediaKit: "Error: -5341: MediaKit reports partition (map) too small".

  2. I ran GParted on a USB flash drive, mounted it and gparted noticed some errors with the partition. it immediatly repaired it. Then I tried to increase the partition within GParted. But this was not possible. GParted can't increase HFS+ format. But after repairing it with GParted, disk utility does not show free space any longer. enter image description here

  3. I ran Terminal and diskutil resizeVolume. But it breaks up with an error message: "Error obtaining partition map size information" diskutil list

And now I am completely lost. What’s wrong and what can I do to reclaim the additional space?

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Can't Can’t increase partition size of cloned volume in ElMac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan)

I have a macbookMacBook with a 120GB ssdSSD. I bought a new one with 240GB. I cloned the content from the old one over with an icyboxICY BOX cloning device. I inserted new SSD in the macbookMacBook and everything is fine and works. But iI then noticed in the disk utility that the size of the partition is still the old one (120GB). So

So here is what iI have tried to far:

  1. I dragged the partition in the pie chart to use all unlocated available space. butBut then iI get the error from MediaKit: "Error: -5341: MediaKit reports partition (map) too small".

  2. iI ran gpartedGParted on a usb stickUSB flash drive, mounted it and gparted noticed some errors with the partition. it immediatly repaired it. then iThen I tried to increase the partition within gpartedGParted. butBut this was not possible. gpartedGParted can't increase hfs+HFS+ format. butBut after repairing it with gpartedGParted, disk utility does not show free space any longer. enter image description here

  3. iI ran terminalTerminal and diskutil resizeVolumediskutil resizeVolume. But it breaks up with an error message: "Error obtaining partition map size information" diskutil list

andAnd now iI am completely lost. WhatsWhat’s wrong and what could ican I do? to reclaim the additional space?

Can't increase partition in El Capitan

I have a macbook with a 120GB ssd. I bought a new one with 240GB. I cloned the content from the old one over with an icybox. I inserted new SSD in the macbook and everything is fine and works. But i then noticed in the disk utility that the size of the partition is still the old one (120GB). So here is what i tried to far:

  1. I dragged the partition in the pie chart to use all unlocated available space. but then i get the error from MediaKit: "Error: -5341: MediaKit reports partition (map) too small".

  2. i ran gparted on a usb stick, mounted it and gparted noticed some errors with the partition. it immediatly repaired it. then i tried to increase the partition within gparted. but this was not possible. gparted can't increase hfs+ format. but after repairing it with gparted, disk utility does not show free space any longer. enter image description here

  3. i ran terminal and diskutil resizeVolume. But it breaks up with an error message: "Error obtaining partition map size information" diskutil list

and now i am completely lost. Whats wrong and what could i do??

Can’t increase partition size of cloned volume in Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan)

I have a MacBook with a 120GB SSD. I bought a new one with 240GB. I cloned the content from the old one over with an ICY BOX cloning device. I inserted new SSD in the MacBook and everything is fine and works. But I then noticed in the disk utility that the size of the partition is still the old one (120GB).

So here is what I have tried to far:

  1. I dragged the partition in the pie chart to use all unlocated available space. But then I get the error from MediaKit: "Error: -5341: MediaKit reports partition (map) too small".

  2. I ran GParted on a USB flash drive, mounted it and gparted noticed some errors with the partition. it immediatly repaired it. Then I tried to increase the partition within GParted. But this was not possible. GParted can't increase HFS+ format. But after repairing it with GParted, disk utility does not show free space any longer. enter image description here

  3. I ran Terminal and diskutil resizeVolume. But it breaks up with an error message: "Error obtaining partition map size information" diskutil list

And now I am completely lost. What’s wrong and what can I do to reclaim the additional space?

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Can't increase partition in El Capitan

I have a macbook with a 120GB ssd. I bought a new one with 240GB. I cloned the content from the old one over with an icybox. I inserted new SSD in the macbook and everything is fine and works. But i then noticed in the disk utility that the size of the partition is still the old one (120GB). So here is what i tried to far:

  1. I dragged the partition in the pie chart to use all unlocated available space. but then i get the error from MediaKit: "Error: -5341: MediaKit reports partition (map) too small".

  2. i ran gparted on a usb stick, mounted it and gparted noticed some errors with the partition. it immediatly repaired it. then i tried to increase the partition within gparted. but this was not possible. gparted can't increase hfs+ format. but after repairing it with gparted, disk utility does not show free space any longer. enter image description here

  3. i ran terminal and diskutil resizeVolume. But it breaks up with an error message: "Error obtaining partition map size information" diskutil list

and now i am completely lost. Whats wrong and what could i do??