Alternatively you can create a disk image without free space, from your partition with your current version of OSX. After that partitioning the disk and then resto re with the .dmg previously created in the new resized partition.
Il 02/mar/2017 06:17 PM, "Bertrand Dekoninck" <[email protected]> ha scritto: > > Le 2 mars 2017 à 16:37, Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR) < > [email protected]> a écrit : > > Hi, > > On Thu, 2 Mar 2017, PhiLLip Pi wrote: > > I suspect the safe and simple option is to use mac os to shrink the > current HFS partition first. > > > In the installed v10.2.8's Disk Utility app, it wouldn't let me. In its > bootable DVD's v10.2.1's Disk Utility, it said it would have to erase my > volumes (delete everything)? Is that how it is supposed to happen? > > > No. But if I'm correct, only the Disk Utility in OSX 10.5 and newer > supports true volume resize, without erasing the contents. (Fix me?) > > 10.5.8 was the last version for PowerPC. But sadly it might not work on > really old PowerBooks. :/ So if you can do this or not might depend on > your machine's type, sadly. > > Charlie > > > If 10.5.8 is not possible, you could always use a newer mac, plug the > powerbook on it via firewire, boot it as a target volume (see > https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201462) and resize the disk using a > newer Disk Utility. > > Alternatively, linux’s parted utility can resize hfs+ filesystems if they > are not journaled. You can use an old ubuntu ppc live cd to do this. That’s > what i did when I install linux on ppc first. See : > https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2211127 > > Hope this helps. > Bertrand Dekoninck > >
