by zslg01 » Thu Nov 22, 2012 6:24 pm
My MBP has a 500GB drive .. I had the first partition for OSX - 400GB (+/- a couple of MB). There were 3 partitions used by Ubuntu (standard "Install alongside OSX format for Ubuntu") selection. Zevo was installed (version 1.1.1).
I build the disk by :
1. Full install of OSX Mountain Lion on full 500GB
2. Disk Utility used to shrink to OSX partition to 400GB leaving 100GB free.
3. Booted Ubuntu 12.10 install DvD and selected the "Install Ubuntu alongside OSX option".
3. Ran Ubuntu and OSX at various times - needed to add the 100GB back to OSX to do some testing.
4. Disk Utility knew the Ubuntu partitions were there. I converted them to HFS+ journaled - Disk Utility wouldn't allow them to be removed if not HFS+
5. Disk Utility simply would not remove the partitions - error was "Not enough space"
6. Tried everything I could think of short of a full re-install of OSX - I did not have a recovery partition on the disk (it got blown away by the resize).
7. Finally decided to remove Zevo -- after that reboot (not the first time I'd rebooted in this scenario) -- viola - Disk Utility allowed removal of the 3 Ubuntu partitions
8. I then resized OSX to use the full disk. Worked fine.
I'll see if I can dig out the syslogs - they may not have survived ....
I also didn't give gparted a try - that might have worked.
On the upside - I have swapped Zevo disks in and out on a Ubuntu 12.10 system and a Mountain Lion system, Ubuntu is running the kernel level zfs (the Fuse version is back level compared to Zevo).
Its as simple as zpool export, zpool import - and all seems to work fine.