On Oct 22, 2008, at 4:43 AM, g3-5-list group wrote: > > == 2 of 4 == > Date: Tues, Oct 21 2008 7:27 pm > From: insightinmind > > 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: I am in digest mode, but I have read through the entire thread online. I wonder why a simpler method would not work. That is, leave the 750 GB FW hard drive as it was, except perhaps to defragment it, though likely not helpful anyway. Attach the FW to the PCI Graphics Mac, use CCC to copy all contents except User(s). Drag User(s). Depending on nomenclature, create easily identifiable folders on the FW drive to keep things straight, especially if you are moving multitple Mac OSs from separate partitions. Operate your new magic on the PCI Graphics Mac's old hard drive, and, lastly, retrieve the FW drive contents. Al Poulin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
