You just copy them over, then delete the ones on the original partition. Drag and drop, erase. I have a Rev. D iMac - so I have to keep my OS X in the first 8 gigs of my 120 GB drive, and with OS 9 in those 8 gigs too (on another partition) it didn't leave much room for big apps. I just moved a bunch of them to my 110+ gigs I had free on the 3rd partition.
BTW -- my old iMac doesn't have FireWire, and transferring to an external drive would have taken forever over USB 1. I just back my stuff up on CD, since I have a CD burner anyway.
Just brainstorming here -- anything in my brain is a storm.
Eddie
From: "Mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "iMac List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "iMac List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: OS/App partition nearly full Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 12:44:26 -0400 (EDT)
>> From: "Mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> I have a 20 GB hard drive partitioned with 5.9 GB (useable) >for system software/ applications and 12.7 GB (usaeble) >for >data. I got my Mac one year old in nearly new condition >already configured this way and
> have never changed it. It has OSX 10.2.8 and OS 9.2.2 and >with Apps has only 1 GB of space left.
>
> 1. Is it possible repartition in OSX without having to >reinitialize the HD and reinstalling OS and Apps? AND not >lose anything!
>
--- On Mon 07/26, Charles Martin < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
Dude, have you ever heard of backups?
To answer your question, there is a product or two that claims to do what you ask -- but (ironically) they are OS X only.
The solution for you is to buy an external FW hard drive, backup your current drive to it using CCC or something like it, then erase and repartition your original HD and clone the stuff back to it. Then, use said drive for regular backups.
_Chas_ FL-MUG: central Florida's Macintosh User Group. ---------
Chas,
Why yes, I back up important documents anf files all the time to CD, just not entire drive partitions containing the OS and apps because I don't have a means of copying anything that large. I am aware of the obviou$ $olution of purcha$ing an external drive to implement your $uggestion but there i$ a rea$on I have not done $o, yet.
The rest of your post contained several constructive suggestions and I thank you for those. Mainly I wanted to find out if OSX had the ability to repartition an actively used drive and just move the data around. I thought someone once mentioned this to be possible. Guess not. Just trying to work within my means first until I resign myself to making the investment (you see I want a really big drive for video storage) and doing the whole reinstall thing.
Thanks, Mike
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