At 1:44 PM -0400 10/21/2008, insightinmind wrote:
>I believe 10.5's Disk Utility is letting me do just that.
>
>Will report back after I complete my experiment.
>
>And its free, too ... relatively.

Free is relative wrt pain.  What Bruce said *10.

Consider what you're doing:

1.  Modifying the partition map -- that points the everything on the HD.
2.  Modifying the partitions themselves ... which contain discontiguous files.

NEITHER was designed to be dynamic.

The amount of data movement needed to do this properly can be 
massive.  OFTEN things go wrong.  If even one pointer is off -- you 
will LOSE data.  This is SO risky I never ever ever ever ever do it.

It is ALWAYS better to make full backups, re-partition the drive 
cleanly, then reload each volume.

FWIW,
- Dan.
-- 
- Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth

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