On 6 Apr 2006 at 10:50, A-NO-NE Music wrote: > David W. Fenton / 2006/04/06 / 08:20 AM wrote: > > >as Partition Magic and other partitioning products have > >been able to do nondestructive repartioning of active volumes for > >over a decade (that's how long I've been using it, since 1996). > > Which isn't possible (at least not reliable thing to do) on Mac file > system. I don't want to sound negative but non-Mac file systems are > much more loose, and Mac users, at least I, have been envy about that. > On the other hand, Mac file system made multiple boot from any volume > possible.
I was just sure that Partition Magic had a Mac version. I also know for a fact that the professional version used to support Linux, but since they've been bought by Symantec (ARGH!!!), they seem to have made it a Windows-only product. Since it seems that they've eliminated the Linux support, I wonder if that implies that my memory of the Mac support was correct? Then again, Linux support only requires the ability to read/write the volume, not the capability to run on Linux (since it reboots its own OS, rather than rebooting in the installed OS). From Googling, I can't see any evidence that Partition Magic can work with Mac volumes. That's too bad -- it's such a great thing to be able to do. I'm constantly resizing partitions on existing drives for myself and for clients. It's something I've come to consider as standard practice. Of course, once Windows is on a dual-boot MacIntel, I wonder if Partition Magic can then work from WinXP? While Googling I definitely saw instructions for using Partition Magic in Windows to resize partitions for installing Darwin on Intel hardware (this predates the MacIntel). But that was also allocating a partition to install OS X on, rather than dynamically resizing after the OS X installation. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
