On Apr 6, 2009, at 7:53 AM, Eric Volker wrote:
> you will need the command line utility > "diskutil" with the "resizeVolume" parameter. Or perhaps, > "splitPartition" would work better. At any rate, once you're done > with "diskutil" you'll end up with your data on a shrunk HFS+ (aka OS > X) partition, with a new blank HFS+ partition. With NTFS-3G and > MacFuse (I believe Bruce mentioned this) installed, you should then be > able to erase the blank HFS+ and reformat it as NTFS. > > I've not tried it with a Mac, but the GParted LiveCD has worked > beautifully for me on PCs. Alas on the PPC version of diskutil, you can't do that. I suspect it only works with GUID partitions, not <mumble mumble I forget the name> of the partition scheme used on PPC macs. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
