My Disk Utility is showing me some Weird Stuff.  My current startup partition is showing as 155 GB, with (I was shocked to discover) 344 GB of unpartitioned free space:    I can try to resize the first partition by removing the "Free space" section, then hit "Apply", but then I get this error:    Actually, if I try this a few times, I get variously different errors.  Sometimes it even says it succeeds, but the partition size doesn't seem to have changed.  When I retry this same sequence after booting from my recovery partition, basically the same result happens, except that now I have two "Free space" partitions, both showing 344 GB, in addition to the 155 GB startup partition.  What's going on here, and how can I take advantage of my full 500 GB disk?  Or do I not actually have a 500 GB disk??  Here's the Disk Utility info for the physical disk - notice that it says it's 500 GB, but the 155 GB partition takes up the whole blue bar:    I'm using High Sierra 10.13.6, on a Late 2011 MacBook Pro 13".
I bought a new SSD with 750 GB and made two partitions: 600 GB and 150 GB. The smaller one was thought to be a Bootcamp partition one day, but to date it was just another unused partition. When I needed more space, I decided to merge these two partitions. The partition was created with Mavericks, the merge was done with Yosemite.  I opened Disk Utility and the "minus" button. Disk Utility told me both partitions would be merged then. However it miserably failed. My main hard disc suddenly had errors which couldn't be repaired and even two of my other external hard discs could not be mounted any longer.  I eventually restored the hard disc from Time Machine, which worked well.  My second partition is now listed as free:    Unfortunately I can't resize the 600 GB partition nor can I create a new partition using the free space.  Diskutil reveils the following:  ~  diskutil list /dev/disk0    #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER    0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *750.2 GB   disk0    1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1    2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         599.6 GB   disk0s2    3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3 /dev/disk1    #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER    0:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD           *599.3 GB   disk1                                  Logical Volume on disk0s2                                  XXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX                                  Unencrypted   Also diskutil brought up this:  ~  diskutil cs list CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found) | +-- Logical Volume Group 9D2BA4BA-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx     =========================================================     Name:         Macintosh HD     Status:       Online     Size:         599640592384 B (599.6 GB)     Free Space:   6111232 B (6.1 MB)     |     +-&lt; Physical Volume 29A9A02B-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx     |   ----------------------------------------------------     |   Index:    0     |   Disk:     disk0s2     |   Status:   Online     |   Size:     599640592384 B (599.6 GB)     |     +-&gt; Logical Volume Family 2FA7892F-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx         ----------------------------------------------------------         Encryption Status:       Unlocked         Encryption Type:         None         Conversion Status:       NoConversion         Conversion Direction:    -none-         Has Encrypted Extents:   No         Fully Secure:            No         Passphrase Required:     No         |         +-&gt; Logical Volume 7BF42B7B-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx             ---------------------------------------------------             Disk:                  disk1             Status:                Online             Size (Total):          599282155520 B (599.3 GB)             Conversion Progress:   -none-             Revertible:            No             LV Name:               Macintosh HD             Volume Name:           Macintosh HD             Content Hint:          Apple_HFS   I have tried this:    fsck -fy (The volume Macintosh HD appears to be OK.)   but it wouldn't help. It said I couldn't recover because it wasn't created in a way it would support (sorry for missing the exact message).  I then have learned that Apple_CoreStorage might indicate my disk is encrypted, which might explain why I can't resize it. It doesn't explain why I can't create a new partition to me.  What are my options to make my hard disk available in a single partition with size 750 GB?
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I've found this document that I tried to follow.    I install sane, copy firmware, confirm the location in the config etc.  Everything looks good.  Potential problem areas  sudo sane-find-scanner   output:  # sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner. If the # result is different from what you expected, first make sure your # scanner is powered up and properly connected to your computer.  found SCSI processor "Marvell 91xx Config 1.01" at /dev/sg5 # Your SCSI scanner was detected. It may or may not be supported by SANE. Try # scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage.  could not fetch string descriptor: Pipe error could not fetch string descriptor: Pipe error found USB scanner (vendor=0x04c5 [FUJITSU], product=0x128d [ScanSnap S1300i]) at    libusb:005:007 could not fetch string descriptor: Pipe error # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage.  # Not checking for parallel port scanners.  # Most Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary ports # can't be detected by this program.   Okay.  So the scanner is detected and listed, it prints a bunch of extra noise that   # scanimage -L  No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different, check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages).   Okay, let's verify the firmware files:  ls -lh  /usr/share/sane/epjitsu  total 136K -rw-r----- 1 root root 65K Jan  1 17:49 1300_0C26.nal -rw-r----- 1 root root 65K Jan  1 17:49 300_0C00.nal   Looking at the configuration file: (snippets)  # Fujitsu S300 firmware /usr/share/sane/epjitsu/300_0C00.nal usb 0x04c5 0x1156  # Fujitsu S1300 firmware /usr/share/sane/epjitsu/1300_0C26.nal usb 0x04c5 0x11ed   Last thing I tried was to pull the line from sane-find-scanner and update the config  sane-find-scanner returns a different product ID.   I updated the config file above, restarted the sane service, I ran scanimage -L still, scanner not detected.  For reference I had this working on this same computer under a virtualbox VM.  If I can get it to work under windows that would be ideal.  Any suggestion would be much appreciated.    Update: I revisited the behavior after adding the 1300i firmware and it's still not working but.  Once in a while when I do run this is the output.  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