> > 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.
What I have done is ADD 4 partitions at the "end" of the 750GB FW hard drive I use under Leopard on my Quicksilver to do my Time Machine backups. It said it would not destroy the first partition's data, and it seemed to run to completion, giving me 5 partitions. The first partition (the only one originally on the drive) was passed over well after its data ended, as shown graphically by Disk Utility. Then I moved my FW drive to my PCI Graphics Mac, CCCed each of 4 partitions from my PCI Graphics Mac to each of the 4 backup disk partitions. I'm doing this so I can resize the PCI Graphics disk by recreating partitions, zeroing all (then completely rewriting all data with copies I just made). Awhile ago, I initially created an OS X partition (8GB) that is really too small for my newer Tiger OS X 10.4.11. Any reason this would not work? Disk Utility under Leopard is not being asked to resize partitions, moving data, after the first one ... just the first one, in order to add 4 more new ones on to it. Then all 4 other partitions are copied back to the PCI Graphics hard drive, creating fresh copies on the new, resized partitions. At present, I'm using Disk Utility on the PCI Graphics machine to Verify the backup drive, to include the first partition containing my Time Machine backup. Can I trust the results if positive? Then copy my data back to the resized PCI Graphics Drive (which I haven't done yet)? I'm not fooling with DOS partitions ... just all Mac OS Extended (Journaled) partitions. Bill Connelly artsite: http://mysite.verizon.net/moonstoneartstudio myspace: http://www.myspace.com/moonstoneartstudio --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
