On Friday, September 26, 2003, at 04:46 pm, Roger Houghton wrote:
On Friday, September 26, 2003, at 01:30 pm, Tom Burke wrote:
Is there an equivalent to Partition Magic (on PCs) for OS X? I've got a G4 AGP on which I'd like to install YellowDog Linux. There's space on the HD but the whole drive is taken up with the HFS partition. I know I could just blow away the existing OS X installation, but this G4 was my original OS X machine, and I keep finding things that I've forgotten about that are on it. So ideally I'd like to repartition, thus keeping the original installation.
Not sure it's possible. Another option if you have a big-enough second drive would be to use Carbon Copy Cloner to make a full backup, partition then re-install.
http://software.bombich.com/ccc.html
Roger
Thanks for this excellent suggestion. I downloaded CCC and made a clone on the second drive in the G4 (having previously amended a few things such as the location of my Home directory, which had been on that drive - I pulled it back to the boot drive). Having made the clone I changed the Startup Drive to the second drive, rebooted and hey presto the system came up from that drive. I know this for definite because I've just rebooted again, but also disconnected the old system drive while the machine was down - the 'second drive' is currently the only drive connected. Once again, it booted without from it without any fuss.
Having found CCC useful, I'd better make a donation.....
Tom
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