The different options available for format(Personality) are shown in Image 1.īefore using this technique to resize/create the partitions on your drive, make sure you’ve backed up everything. Jhfsx means Case-sensitive Journaled HFS+ (refer Image 1)Īnother thing I realized is that creating partition from terminal takes almost half the time required to create partition using Disk Utility. Please refer to image 1 and 2 for details regarding the values used.ĭiskutil resizeVolume disk0s3 10.3G jhfsx Testing 10Gĭisk0s3 is the Identifier of the partition (refer Image 2)ġ0.3G would be the new size of the partition disk0s3 How to Fix A Mac Stuck Installing macOS 11 Update. The command for creating partition isĭiskutil resizeVolume IDENTIFIER NEW_SIZE PERSONALITY NEW_DRIVE_NAME NEW_DRIVE_SIZE It involves restarting the Mac in Recovery Mode, through holding down Command + R at startup.
Run 'diskutil list' on terminal (Click on the image to enlarge it)
